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On 9/9/19 11:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday, 9 September 2019 15:52:23 BST Jack wrote: |
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>> What does "eix most' show? |
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> $ eix -e most |
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> [I] sys-apps/most |
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> Available versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2} ~5.1.0 |
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> Installed versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2}[1](14:18:39 22/03/19) |
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> Homepage: https://www.jedsoft.org/most/ |
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> Description: Paging program that displays, one windowful at a |
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> time, the contents of a file |
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> |
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> [1] "prh-local" /usr/local/portage |
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> |
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> (What ugly sentence construction.) |
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> |
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> Man eix says that eix-test-obsolete is a script that calls eix several times, |
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> so I'd have been surprised if its output had differed from eix's. |
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True - I just wanted to confirm it didn't think there were any ebuilds |
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other than in the main tree. |
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>> It looks like portage thinks your current install of most was done from |
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>> your local repository, Either that's true, and you just deleted it |
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>> from /usr/local/portage, or else portage is confused about where it |
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>> last installed from. In either case, just "emerge -1 most" and it |
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>> should (re)install it from the main tree. |
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> It's never been in my local repository. Emerging it again has fixed the eix |
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> database though. |
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>> If you never had that package in your local repo, perhaps the more |
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>> important question is why did portage think you did? |
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> Indeed, and that's what I can't work out. As far as I can remember, the only |
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> local ebuilds I've had are grub-legacy, on that same box, and a patched |
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> version of localepurge to make it obey the --silent option. I still have grub, |
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> but not localepurge because it's been dropped from Gentoo. |
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Have you added or deleted any repositories lately? This is just a wild |
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guess (and likely wrong) but I wonder if the eix database uses an index |
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into the list of repositories instead of text reference. Doesn't seem |
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likely, or there probably would have been other entries pointing to a |
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"wrong" repository. Check out eix-installed to see if you can find any |
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other anomalies. |
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