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Dan Cowsill writes: |
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> I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update |
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> (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new |
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> packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv |
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> to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: |
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> !!! You have no world file. |
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> !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. |
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> Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 packages |
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> and I thank FSM I added -p. |
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> So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. What's the |
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> story? Gremlins? |
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Stupid question maybe, but does /var/lib/portage/world exist? If not, emerge |
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-uDNav world would not complain and do a system update only. |
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Does eix -Iu show lots of packages you thought a wold update should have |
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updated? |
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In case you lost the file, the regenworld script is supposed to restore it. |
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But I don't know how well this works. |
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Wonko |