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From: John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:49:33
Message-Id: 17954.54476.95001.587673@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays? by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@××××.dk) wrote
2 > On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote:
4 > > > Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
5 > > > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there. I
6 > > > did emerge --regen but still no luck. The make.conf within layman no
7 > > > longer has them, but where is the information still retained?
8 >
9 > Would be much easier to answer if you told us why you think it's still there.
10 > And `emerge --regen` really wasn't needed (not that it did any damage
11 > either).
12 >
13 > > If you mean by "portage still thinks" stuff from gentoolkit like equery
14 > > then you should do eupdatedb I believe.
15 >
16 > No, that's for esearch not equery. And update-eix for eix..
17
18 Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for
19 updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I
20 do emerge --update --deep world I get ebuilds from the overlays and
21 at the end it has the [1] indicating the overlay directory.
22
23 Very strange.
24
25 --
26 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
27 How do
28 you spend it?
29
30 John Covici
31 covici@××××××××××.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>