On Monday, 9 September 2019 15:52:23 BST Jack wrote:
> What does "eix most' show?
$ eix -e most
[I] sys-apps/most
Available versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2} ~5.1.0
Installed versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2}[1](14:18:39 22/03/19)
Homepage: https://www.jedsoft.org/most/
Description: Paging program that displays, one windowful at a
time, the contents of a file
[1] "prh-local" /usr/local/portage
(What ugly sentence construction.)
Man eix says that eix-test-obsolete is a script that calls eix several times,
so I'd have been surprised if its output had differed from eix's.
> It looks like portage thinks your current install of most was done from
> your local repository, Either that's true, and you just deleted it
> from /usr/local/portage, or else portage is confused about where it
> last installed from. In either case, just "emerge -1 most" and it
> should (re)install it from the main tree.
It's never been in my local repository. Emerging it again has fixed the eix
database though.
> If you never had that package in your local repo, perhaps the more
> important question is why did portage think you did?
Indeed, and that's what I can't work out. As far as I can remember, the only
local ebuilds I've had are grub-legacy, on that same box, and a patched
version of localepurge to make it obey the --silent option. I still have grub,
but not localepurge because it's been dropped from Gentoo.
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Regards,
Peter.
