On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I > > logged in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', > > it's not there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to > > xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've > > This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages > are "installed" but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using? > > > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no > > joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and > > recompile the packages from scratch? > > You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`.
When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when he emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged... -- Bo Andresen
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