Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in
a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for
inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The
machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge
--depclean;revdep-rebuild. However I am left with one strange package
that doesn't exit. I'm thinking sys-libs/-MERGING-pam is left over
from some emerge that possibly failed and would like to clean it up. I
does exist in /var/db/pkg but I've never touched anything in these
dirfectories by hand so I'd like to know the right way to go about
this.
The other few packages that failed in eix-test-obsolete allowed an
emerge -C but this one doesn't.
Thanks,
Mark
gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam
/var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1
gandalf ~ #
gandalf ~ # eix-test-obsolete
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.use.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags.
The following installed packages are not in the database:
sys-libs/-MERGING-pam
--
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
All installed versions of packages are in the database (or test switched off).
gandalf ~ # eix -I pam
[I] sys-libs/pam
Available versions: 0.99.8.1-r1 0.99.9.0 ~1.0.1 {audit cracklib
elibc_FreeBSD elibc_glibc nls selinux test vim-syntax}
Installed versions: 0.99.9.0(09:06:34 12/24/07)(cracklib
elibc_glibc nls -audit -elibc_FreeBSD -selinux -test -vim-syntax)
Homepage:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Description: Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
gandalf ~ #
Hi Mark,
Just remove (or move it somewhere) the whole directory:
#rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1
Probably left from some error while merging pam.
Then test again.
HTH, Rumen
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