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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/-MERGING-pam
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:02:38
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0804280602y610f013am9efc6d5aa994feb7@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2 I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in
3 a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for
4 inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The
5 machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge
6 --depclean;revdep-rebuild. However I am left with one strange package
7 that doesn't exit. I'm thinking sys-libs/-MERGING-pam is left over
8 from some emerge that possibly failed and would like to clean it up. I
9 does exist in /var/db/pkg but I've never touched anything in these
10 dirfectories by hand so I'd like to know the right way to go about
11 this.
12
13 The other few packages that failed in eix-test-obsolete allowed an
14 emerge -C but this one doesn't.
15
16 Thanks,
17 Mark
18
19 gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam
20 /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1
21 gandalf ~ #
22
23 gandalf ~ # eix-test-obsolete
24
25 No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
26 No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask.
27 No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
28 No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.use.
29 No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags.
30 The following installed packages are not in the database:
31
32 sys-libs/-MERGING-pam
33 --
34
35 No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
36 No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
37 No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
38 No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
39 No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
40 No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
41 No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
42 No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
43 No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
44 No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
45 All installed versions of packages are in the database (or test switched off).
46 gandalf ~ # eix -I pam
47 [I] sys-libs/pam
48 Available versions: 0.99.8.1-r1 0.99.9.0 ~1.0.1 {audit cracklib
49 elibc_FreeBSD elibc_glibc nls selinux test vim-syntax}
50 Installed versions: 0.99.9.0(09:06:34 12/24/07)(cracklib
51 elibc_glibc nls -audit -elibc_FreeBSD -selinux -test -vim-syntax)
52 Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
53 Description: Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
54
55 gandalf ~ #
56 --
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[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/-MERGING-pam Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>