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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to diagnose version conflicts?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:33:22
Message-Id: sroh32$u31$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to diagnose version conflicts? by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2022-01-12, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:25:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >
4 >> > If it was installed through portage, there would have been an ebuild
5 >> > for it, in /var/db/pkg.
6 >>
7 >> Yes, correct past tense. There was at some point in the past when
8 >> ipkg-utils was installed.
9 >>
10 >> > That's what portage was referencing when if made the dependency
11 >> > calculations.
12 >>
13 >> There was no ipkg ebuild. [...]
14 >
15 > The ebuild would still have been on /var/db/pkg as long as it was
16 > installed.
17
18 Doh! Of course you're right.
19
20 I was getting /var/db/repos and /var/db/pkg mixed up. I had been
21 searching /var/db/repos not /var/db/pkg
22
23 --
24 Grant