On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:30:43 +0100
Dominik Westner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am experiencing strange problems with portage's autoclean feature 
> with some packages. Somehow autoclean wants to clean the newly 
> installed package instead of the old one.
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> loki root # emerge -up expat
> [ebuild    U ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.6 [1.95.5-r1]
> 
> loki root # emerge expat
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>  >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-libs/expat-1.95.6 to /
>  >>> md5 ;-) expat-1.95.6.tar.gz
> ...
> 
>  >>> dev-libs/expat-1.95.6 merged.
> 
>   dev-libs/expat
>      selected: 1.95.6
>     protected: 1.95.5-r1
>       omitted: none
> 
> I interrupted the process here.
> Now when I check for expat I get this.
> 
> loki root # emerge -pu expat
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> 
> loki root # emerge -p expat
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R  ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.6
> 
> 
> This seems to be all perfect besides if I hadn't interrupted the 
> autoclean I'd have a broken installation (this happened to me with 
> binutils, that was a pretty bad recovery).
> 
> Anybody knows what this could be?
> 

Could be that expat-1.95.5 was merged last for some reason.  Try
to remerge expat-1.95.6, and see what it does then.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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