Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:21:25 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: The build has finished and the error was still there. I ran emaint --check world and found that there were several apps with no ebuilds in portage. They were all unused apps that I had played with at one time or another and I simply

[gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry yet? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 13:34:57 up 1

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Ernie Schroder schreef: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry yet? Let's see... you expect one instance

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:36:47 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry yet? No, you should follow the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the above message. Should I worry

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ernie Schroder schreef: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to 3.5 and got the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Willie Wong schreef: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:22PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ernie Schroder schreef: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for updates to world while I was updating KDE to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:58 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: There are reasons that major Portage processes are not supposed to be carried out concurrently. It's true that while I'm upgrading KDE, I probably could emerge... oh, mutt... at the same time in another instance, but checking the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:58 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: There are reasons that major Portage processes are not supposed to be carried out concurrently. It's true that while I'm upgrading KDE, I probably could emerge... oh, mutt... at the same time in another

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:22:23PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Also possible. Certainly there's nothing /wrong/ with running emaint --check world. I only wanted to point out that this error could also be a false positive. Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:22:23 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: The emerge -u invocation wasn't actually emerging anything, so it won't write to world. Yes, got that, but it would be scanning the world file to determine what had updates available that had not been performed. If some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my up-to-date system. It seems to be in portage-2.0.53 which is still masked. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 02:10 pm, a tiny voice compelled Willie Wong to write: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:36:47PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I checked for

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:33:58PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Oh, I dunno-- what actually happens to the world file (in terms of ownership/process ownership and locking) at the time that an emerge that affects the world file is being performed? I took it to mean that the OP typed emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:39:56PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: Simple question here, but what is emaint? No trace of it on my up-to-date system. portage-2.0.53, I have it on my laptop running ~x86, but not on my desktop running x86. running it without arguments give: Currently emaint can

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:46:07PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: portage-2.0.53, I have it on my laptop running ~x86, but not on my desktop running x86. running it without arguments give: Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world file. Future versions will integrate

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
The build has finished and the error was still there. I ran emaint --check world and found that there were several apps with no ebuilds in portage. They were all unused apps that I had played with at one time or another and I simply deleted them from the world file. All seems well now. Thanks