On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 09:37, Marc Redmann wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > Can I safely erase all of /var/tmp/portage and let things take their > > course again? I think yes, but don't want to pull the trigger quite > > yet... > > Just delete all data in /var/tmp/portage and start from the beginning. > It's safe to do so ... > > brgds, Marc
Marc, I did this but the problem has repeated for the 3rd time. I don't get it. Could it be somehow related to portage trying to do a downgrade? Wizard root # emerge -Upv world >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/-MERGING-perl-5.8.0-r12 [ebuild UD] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.1-r2] +berkdb -doc +gdbm -threads [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 [2.3.2-r8] +nls -pic -build -nptl [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 [2.14.90.0.7] +nls -bootstrap -build Wizard root # Right now I'm left with this 'incomplete merge' message.. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
