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On Monday, 9 September 2019 15:52:23 BST Jack wrote: |
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> What does "eix most' show? |
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$ eix -e most |
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[I] sys-apps/most |
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Available versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2} ~5.1.0 |
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Installed versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2}[1](14:18:39 22/03/19) |
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Homepage: https://www.jedsoft.org/most/ |
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Description: Paging program that displays, one windowful at a |
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time, the contents of a file |
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[1] "prh-local" /usr/local/portage |
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(What ugly sentence construction.) |
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Man eix says that eix-test-obsolete is a script that calls eix several times, |
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so I'd have been surprised if its output had differed from eix's. |
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> It looks like portage thinks your current install of most was done from |
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> your local repository, Either that's true, and you just deleted it |
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> from /usr/local/portage, or else portage is confused about where it |
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> last installed from. In either case, just "emerge -1 most" and it |
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> should (re)install it from the main tree. |
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It's never been in my local repository. Emerging it again has fixed the eix |
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database though. |
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> If you never had that package in your local repo, perhaps the more |
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> important question is why did portage think you did? |
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Indeed, and that's what I can't work out. As far as I can remember, the only |
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local ebuilds I've had are grub-legacy, on that same box, and a patched |
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version of localepurge to make it obey the --silent option. I still have grub, |
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but not localepurge because it's been dropped from Gentoo. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |