Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Oddity in eix database

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 20 November 2014 16:26:40 Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > The following installed packages are not in the database:
> >
> > virtual/-MERGING-perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML
>
> portage generates such a directory or file in /var/db/pkg
> when it is merging the package. When portage exits
> (even uncleanly), this entry should be removed.
>
> If it still exists, it means that portage died in a bad
> way (strange error, power failure or kill -9 signal).
>
> It is safe to remove this file/dir from /var/db/pkg,
> but I would recommend to re-emerge the corresponding package
> (perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML in your case):
> It might be that portage has partially merged some
> files of the package but not yet all of them, or
> something similar. You might get collision messages
> when you try to re-emerge.

Ah, I see. So I have now removed the offending directory. I didn't have that 
package installed (so I don't know why it left that directory, dated 6 Nov), 
but I emerged it single-shot, then ran emerge --depclean, which removed it 
again.

Everything tidied up neatly - thanks Martin.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.