On Wednesday 10 December 2003 05:24, Mike Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 20:01, David Obwaller wrote: > > Am Die, den 09.12.2003 schrieb Jeff Smelser um 20:45: > > > I am correct. > > > > > > jeff root # qpkg -f /bin/mv > > > sys-apps/coreutils * > > > > > > Its been replaced my coreutils.. I remember that some time back. > > > > that's right. emerge depclean tried to unmerge sh-utils and textutils I > > think, because they were replaced by coreutils. as my system wasn't > > quite up to date something wen't wrong. at least I could recover using > > my slackware install. > > > > so do I have to run 'emerge -uD world' or the like before using 'emerge > > depclean' to avoid troubles? > > Not necessarily. > emerge depclean doesn't just uninstall any old packages. > Sounds like sh-utils may have been re-installed *after* coreutils had been > installed, otherwise the mtimes and md5sums would not have matched and the > files would have been left.
Sounds a bit strange to me too. Although, sh-utils couldn't have been reinstalled because all the sh-utils ebuild does is output a text message saying that it's been replaced by core-utils and then dies. To me, it sounds like emerge sync had been run without updating for a long time. sh-utils has been removed from system and so there are no dependencies on it. Running emerge depclean then just got rid of it. I think that dep-clean would have done the same thing in this scenario. The moral of the story? Always check what's going to happen before doing so when operating on the entire package tree. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
