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From: Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can portage clean up after a failed installation?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:36:19
Message-Id: 1172755769.6323.0.camel@omc-2.omesc.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can portage clean up after a failed installation? by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:30:59 Jules Colding wrote:
3 > > I've just tried to install nexuiz. Unfortunately it failed with "[Errno
4 > > 28] No space left on device".
5 > >
6 > > I can see that some files was installed. Can portage clean those up by
7 > > itself or do I have to do it manually?
8 >
9 > Portage probably left a dir names /var/db/pkg/games-fps/-MERGING-nexuiz-*.
10 > Simply renaming that dir to remove the -MERGING- allows you to unmerge
11 > whatever was already merged...
12 >
13 > # cd /var/db/pkg/games-fps
14 > # mv -- {-MERGING-,}nexuiz-*
15 > # emerge -Cva nexuiz
16
17 Exactly what I was looking for.
18
19 Thanks a lot!
20 jules
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