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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange eix problem
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:17:05
Message-Id: 2513584.WTjNHkngos@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange eix problem by Jack
1 On Monday, 9 September 2019 15:52:23 BST Jack wrote:
2
3 > What does "eix most' show?
4
5 $ eix -e most
6 [I] sys-apps/most
7 Available versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2} ~5.1.0
8 Installed versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2}[1](14:18:39 22/03/19)
9 Homepage: https://www.jedsoft.org/most/
10 Description: Paging program that displays, one windowful at a
11 time, the contents of a file
12
13 [1] "prh-local" /usr/local/portage
14
15 (What ugly sentence construction.)
16
17 Man eix says that eix-test-obsolete is a script that calls eix several times,
18 so I'd have been surprised if its output had differed from eix's.
19
20 > It looks like portage thinks your current install of most was done from
21 > your local repository, Either that's true, and you just deleted it
22 > from /usr/local/portage, or else portage is confused about where it
23 > last installed from. In either case, just "emerge -1 most" and it
24 > should (re)install it from the main tree.
25
26 It's never been in my local repository. Emerging it again has fixed the eix
27 database though.
28
29 > If you never had that package in your local repo, perhaps the more
30 > important question is why did portage think you did?
31
32 Indeed, and that's what I can't work out. As far as I can remember, the only
33 local ebuilds I've had are grub-legacy, on that same box, and a patched
34 version of localepurge to make it obey the --silent option. I still have grub,
35 but not localepurge because it's been dropped from Gentoo.
36
37 --
38 Regards,
39 Peter.

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