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Bo Ørsted Andresen writes: |
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> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:17:27 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > and what is the output of: |
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> > > |
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> > > # cat /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/{glibc-2.2.5-r2,glibc-2.5}/SLOT |
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> > A blank line, and 2.2. |
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> You should definitely fix that. glibc-2.2.5-r2 is supposed to be in SLOT |
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> 2.2 too which means it should have been cleaned when you upgraded to |
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> glibc-2.5. |
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Looking at /var/log/emerge.log, I do not see glibc-2.2.5-r2 anywhere. No |
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idea where it came from. |
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> Run either `equery check =sys-libs/glibc-2.5` or `qcheck |
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> =sys-libs/glibc-2.5` (requires either gentoolkit or portage-utils) to |
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> verify that no harm will be caused by unmerging glibc-2.2.5-r2. Then |
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> unmerge glibc-2.2.5-r2. |
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OK. The check shows no problem, I unmerged it. |
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> > I grepped in /var/cache/edb, nothing there, and locate binutils|grep |
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> > text also showed nothing. Just in case this could mean anything. |
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> Hmm... I actually see this on my system too.. I assume you just didn't |
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> manage to grep the right files... |
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Well, a grep -r app-text/binutils /var/cache/edb/ should catch all of them. |
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> # grep app-text/binutils /var/cache/edb/dep/$(portageq |
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> portdir)/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 [...] ppc? ( >=app-text/binutils-2.17 ) |
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> ppc64? ( >=app-text/binutils-2.17 ) >=app-text/binutils-2.15.94 [...] |
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Nope, no output. |
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> > Then I tried emerge --metadata, and suddenly the problem is gone. |
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> > Whatever it was. Wow, now I have 872 packages to emerge. |
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> > Thanks for your help, Bo! |
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> > Do you think I should file a bug, so the devs become aware of this |
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> > potential problem, or should we just hope it never happens again? I |
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> > still wonder what may have caused this, looks to me like something got |
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> > corrupted badly. |
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> That `emerge --metadata` fixes it means that it has been fixed on the |
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> mirrors. So there's not much to report.. |
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Okay, I'll just forget about it then. |
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Thanks again, |
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Alex |
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