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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:29:56
Message-Id: 1493091.AYR2Czp2am@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it by Dale
1 On Tuesday 15 September 2015 04:05:16 Dale wrote:
2 > Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Monday 14 September 2015 11:28:36 Marc Joliet wrote:
4 > >> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be
5 > >> capable
6 > >> of fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command). It
7 > >> can
8 > >> do a couple more things, so check it out anyway. (Also, per the news
9 > >> item
10 > >> "New portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going
11 > >> to become the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)
12 > >
13 > > Thanks for the reminder, Marc. I'd forgotten about that news item.
14 > >
15 > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against
16 > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google didn't
17 > > help.
18 > I got one of those too.
19 >
20 > root@fireball / # emaint all
21 --->8
22 > Emaint: check movebin 100%
23 > [============================================>]
24 >
25 > 'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata
26 >
27 > Emaint: check moveinst 100%
28 > [============================================>]
29 >
30 > 'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata
31 >
32 > [============================================>]
33
34 Yes, that's one of the five I got. I can't tell you the other four now because
35 they've scrolled off.
36
37 > Still not quite sure exactly what this does tho. :/
38
39 Nor I. Still, it doesn't seem to be anything to worry about.
40
41 --
42 Rgds
43 Peter