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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:16:13
Message-Id: j85gk4$kr6$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed by Hartmut Figge
1 On 10/25/2011 12:21 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras:
3 >> On 10/24/2011 02:40 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote:
4 >
5 >>> i5 hafi # emerge --sync
6 > [...]
7 >>> ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2'
8 >>
9 >> For future reference, instead of deleting (which can be a bad idea since
10 >> new ebuilds can depend on renamed/moved packages which means you can
11 >> mess up your installation), you can resync later with:
12 >>
13 >> emerge --sync --package-moves=n
14 >
15 > Followed by a normal emerge --sync which will take care of the necessary
16 > actions for move?
17
18 Not necessary. Portage will perform them on the first opportunity (like
19 when trying to emerge something.)