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On 2/13/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> On 13 February 2006 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> > | while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I |
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> > | stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed |
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> > | on my system. |
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> > | How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean "emerge --unmerge |
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> > | dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. |
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> > It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage |
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> > keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something. |
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> Apparently, I did install it a very long time ago because emerge told me it |
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> didn't know it. :-( |
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Well, then grab the ebuild from cvs: |
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http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/ |
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> Uwe |
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Max |
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