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Michael W. Holdeman wrote: |
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> OK since there are world file experts out there.. |
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> A while back I was playing around with cvs and svn versions of kde, long story |
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> short they are there anymore, and as far as I can tell the files are gone, |
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> but portage thinks they are still there which really screws up my |
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> revdep-rebuild and emerge depclean's. I can't even get rid of them in kuroo, |
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> in fact kuroo shows the files are still installed? |
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> how do I get rid of these "ghosts" |
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Well, if portage thinks a package is installed, then normally you can simply unmerge it. If the unmerge fails for some reason (normally it won't fail), then you can manually remove it from the /var/db/pkg database, but it will leave behind orphaned files. |
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Zac |
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