On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >>>> >>>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list >>>> !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! >>>> exiting >>>> c2stable ~ # >>> >>> Mine does the same thing on 1 computer but works on 2 others. All with >>> the same versions of all involved packages. Weird. >>> >> >> Hey, at least I'm in good company if my old friend Paul Hartman sees >> the same thing. :-) >> >> There is a patch to the binutils.eselect file here that worked for me: >> >> https://423525.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=316441 >> >> Before patching (if you do at all - I recommend you don't patch unless >> you just want to) run this command in the directory you are running >> eselect in. (For me it was just /root) >> >> echo -* >> >> On a 'good' machine it returns >> >> -q >> >> On a 'bad' machine here it returns >> >> --help -q >> >> I don't think the machine is really bad. I think eselect was likely >> just not being selective enough about how it works with whatever is in >> the directory or search path? Not sure. >> >> If you see something different you might add it to the bug report but >> I suspect we've got the same issue. > > Ah-ha. When I run the command from a directory which does not contain > any files or dirs starting with hyphen, it is fine. In my user dir > there is ~/- directory for some reason, so that must have been > confusing it. >
Yes, same here. rm -- -q rm -- --help and now eselect binutils list works fine. The devs have now patched eselect in git to fix this in a future release. In my case I suspect that I executed some command where I was looking for help (--help) but the command was mistyped and I got a file as output, etc. Not sure how you got a directory but if there's nothing in it you care about then I suppose rm -- ~/- would clean it up and eselect would probably work for you also. Cheers, Mark
