Marc Joliet wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2015 22:46:01 Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: >> >> >> The following installed packages are not in the database: >> >> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev > [...] > > Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable > of > fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command). It can do a > couple more things, so check it out anyway. (Also, per the news item "New > portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going to > become > the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.) > > HTH
Based on what I read on one of the links someone else provided, that could be what failed. From what I get about how this works. Portage compiles the stuff and then puts it in that directory to be merged onto the main file system. Once that is done, it should delete that directory but for some reason, it doesn't on rare occasions. When it gets left, eix-test-obsolete catches it and then confuses the user. If it were more consistent, I'd think a bug report would be in order but since we can't reproduce this thing on a regular basis, I think it would be pointless. Dale :-) :-)
