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. -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
