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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:56:20
Message-Id: 47A48475.8060401@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon schrieb:
2 > On Saturday 02 February 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
3 >>> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
4 >>> !!! Please run emaint --check world
5 >> You should also consider this! There are some invalid entries in your
6 >> world file. Normally this are packages which are in world but are not
7 >> installed on the system.
8 >
9 > You mean "packages which are installed on the system but are not in
10 > portage" surely?
11 >
12
13 No! This error occurs for instance when you have a package listed in the
14 world file but it is not installed.
15
16 Just test it and manually put some cat/some-pkg you have not installed
17 in the world file and run "emerge -pv world" then portage starts
18 complaining, although it would install the newly added entry with its
19 dependencies.
20
21 Emaint checks the world file for a few problems. For entries with
22 invalid atoms, entries with a package that is not installed (see above
23 example) and entries that have a category that is not listed in
24 /etc/portage/categories.
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>