On Monday 14 September 2015 15:50:20 wraeth wrote: > Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from > sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following > packages installed from the sys-fs category: > > eix -cI\#C sys-fs > sys-fs/btrfs-progs > sys-fs/cryptsetup > sys-fs/e2fsprogs > sys-fs/fuse > sys-fs/lvm2 > sys-fs/ntfs3g > sys-fs/udev > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts > sys-fs/udisks > > Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/ > > ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30 > drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6 > > If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs > category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other > mysteries may be afoot...
I think Dale meant that the -MERGING- directory under /var/db/pkg/sys-fs was empty. This happened to me once too, and I asked about it here. As soon as someone said it was a temporary directory used during the merging of a package, all became clear - it should have been removed at the end of the merge but for some reason it hadn't. -- Rgds Peter
