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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:11:45 -0400, Nicholas Jones <carpaski@g.o> wrote: |
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> Well, as you are probably now aware, deleting files from portage's |
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> database is not a good idea. |
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rather painfully, yes ! |
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> You _could_ recreate them with values equal to the counter |
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> kept in /var/cache/edb/counter. Slotted packages might have |
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> some issues. You best recourse is to emerge -e world with |
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> AUTOCLEAN=no, then emerge clean. |
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hmm, there is already a bugzilla incident no. 29510 which describes |
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the fix (basically delete the directories, and then run |
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/usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.py). this does seem to fix the problems. |
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do you still think that i need to do an emerge -e world ? |
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thanks |
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anupam |
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