Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge issue when package does not unmerge correctly

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:48:09PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sometimes an old ebuild cannot be unmerged. This happened to me with the
> recent eclass changes - the old inheriting ebuilds already installed no
> longer worked. (I have since provided backward compatibility.)
>
> This creates a problem: when an older ebuild of the same revision is
> automatically unmerged, if unmerging fails, the old CONTENTS stays in
> /var/db/pkg, but the new files have already been merged into the live
> filesystem. So you are left with a CONTENTS not corresponding to the files
> actually installed (since they all have at least different mtimes).
>
> I think the correct thing here would be to overwrite the old /var/db/pkg
> record with the new one in any case, to ensure that it matches the installed
> files.

Just try unmerging it again; it should do the right thing.

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.