Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi, I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge --depclean;revdep-rebuild. However I am left with one strange package that doesn't exit. I'm thinking sys-libs/-MERGING-pam is left over from some emerge that possibly failed and would like to clean it up. I does exist in /var/db/pkg but I've never touched anything in these dirfectories by hand so I'd like to know the right way to go about this.The other few packages that failed in eix-test-obsolete allowed an emerge -C but this one doesn't. Thanks, Mark gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1 gandalf ~ # gandalf ~ # eix-test-obsolete No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords. No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask. No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask. No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.use. No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags. The following installed packages are not in the database: sys-libs/-MERGING-pam -- No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off). No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off). No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off). No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off). No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off). No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off). No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off). No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off). No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off). No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off). All installed versions of packages are in the database (or test switched off). gandalf ~ # eix -I pam [I] sys-libs/pam Available versions: 0.99.8.1-r1 0.99.9.0 ~1.0.1 {audit cracklib elibc_FreeBSD elibc_glibc nls selinux test vim-syntax} Installed versions: 0.99.9.0(09:06:34 12/24/07)(cracklib elibc_glibc nls -audit -elibc_FreeBSD -selinux -test -vim-syntax) Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ Description: Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) gandalf ~ #
Hi Mark, Just remove (or move it somewhere) the whole directory: #rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1 Probably left from some error while merging pam. Then test again. HTH, Rumen -- [email protected] mailing list
