Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume
On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge to believe that there's nothing to resume. Thank you! Removing that file did the trick. The mtimedb contains a lot more than the resume list. The following command will show you it's contents: # python -c 'import portage;print portage.mtimedb' Removing it seems rather pointless IMO. The resume list gets overwritten if you emerge a list of packages rather than just one package. Either way it's contents is irrelevant when you don't need to resume a list of packages. -- Bo Andresen pgpN9pyF54lNl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge to believe that there's nothing to resume. Thank you! Removing that file did the trick. The mtimedb contains a lot more than the resume list. The following command will show you it's contents: # python -c 'import portage;print portage.mtimedb' Removing it seems rather pointless IMO. The resume list gets overwritten if you emerge a list of packages rather than just one package. Either way it's contents is irrelevant when you don't need to resume a list of packages. Bo, as I said, I tried with only one package. So, you may be right about the list, but for sure removing /var/cache/edb/mtimedb fixed the problem: emerge --resume now gives It seems we have nothing to resume and the strange message disappeared. So, I'm happy. :) I just hope I haven't erased some important info, but I doubt that - if something is in the cache it should be possible to be regenerated. ;-))) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge to believe that there's nothing to resume. Thank you! Removing that file did the trick. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
