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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:16:26
Message-Id: j836p1$pe3$2@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed by Hartmut Figge
1 On 10/24/2011 02:40 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote:
2 > Greetings,
3 >
4 > emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which
5 > leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried
6 > another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck.
7 >
8 > ---------------
9 > i5 hafi # emerge --sync
10 >
11 > Performing Global Updates:
12 > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
13 > .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move'
14 > s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move'
15 > p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
16 > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2011..........................
17 > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011......
18 > ERROR: Malformed update entry 'move dev-php5/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2 dev-php/dev-php5/pecl-ssh2'
19
20 For future reference, instead of deleting (which can be a bad idea since
21 new ebuilds can depend on renamed/moved packages which means you can
22 mess up your installation), you can resync later with:
23
24 emerge --sync --package-moves=n

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[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de>