Hi, this used to work in the past but now "null/" gets pulled in. Why? /usr/portage/app-pda # for p in *; do emerge --unmerge $p; done --- Couldn't find 'null/barry' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge --- Couldn't find 'null/coldsync' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge --- Couldn't find 'null/dynamite' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge --- Couldn't find 'null/gnome-pilot' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge ^C /usr/portage/app-pda # # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.1-i686-Mobile_Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_-_M_CPU_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/torque /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en cs cz" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage /usr/local/java-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip R X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib ace acl acpi alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 audacious audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb blas bluetooth boost branding bzip2 cairo cblas cddb cdparanoia cdr clamav cli colordiff compress cpio cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx dbus dga dia directfb djbfft dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss emf enblend encode enscript exif expat fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glibc-compat20 glibc-omitfp glut gmp gnuplot gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hdf hdf5 hp2xx i8x0 icc iconv icu id3 ieee1394 ifc imagemagick imlib inifile innodb isdnlog ithreads jack java javascript jbig jce jikes jpeg jpeg2k kdtree kerberos lame lapack laptop lcms leim libcaca libedit libnotify libwww live lzo lzw mad maildir matroska mhash midi mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mng mod_python modperl modplug motif mozilla moznoirc mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mpi_njtree mpich2 mplayer mudflap mule musepack mxdatetime mysql mysqli ncurses netcdf netpbm network nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs numeric ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcmcia pcntl pcre pdf perl plotutils plugin png pnm postproc postscript ppds pppd procmail pymol python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar raw readline recode reflection reiserfs rpm samba sasl scanner scp seamonkey server session sftp sift slp smime sndfile soap sockets spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles subversion svg svgz sysfs sysvipc t1lib tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk transcode truetype unicode urandom usb userlocales utils uuencode v4l v4l2 vcd vhook vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xcf xfs xft xinerama xinetd xml xorg xpm xsl xslt xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel-8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config mem_cache mime mime_magic rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias negotiation" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs cz" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS From my emerge.log: 1242049762: >>> emerge (26 of 73) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5 to / 1242049769: === (26 of 73) Cleaning (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5::/usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5.ebuild) 1242049769: === (26 of 73) Compiling/Merging (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5::/usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5.ebuild) 1242049788: === (26 of 73) Merging (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5::/usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc5.ebuild) 1242049793: >>> AUTOCLEAN: app-portage/gentoolkit:0 1242049793: === Unmerging... (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.3) 1242049797: >>> unmerge success: app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.3
I fail to see what this has to do with gentoolkit.
Maybe nothing, I just thought it was this recent upgrade causing it. ;)
Apparently you don't have those packages installed, and that's why it expands the category to null/.
(In reply to comment #3) > Apparently you don't have those packages installed, and that's why it expands > the category to null/. > True.
Ok, so those packages can't be uninstalled and the behavior seems acceptable.
But tha used to be a nice feature to walk over all packages from a group to emerge or unmerge them, whatever. Could portage not print the package at all if it is not available, as before? That is, make it more silent?
I can strip off the null/ part and just show the name, but I think it should still notify about non-existing packages (except maybe in --quiet mode).
(In reply to comment #7) > I can strip off the null/ part and just show the name, but I think it should Please do so. > still notify about non-existing packages (except maybe in --quiet mode). Fine with me. Thanks.
This is fixed in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=7867f86893b6f2c94f8e696428e1d4ab92923fd6
This is fixed in 2.1.9.41 and 2.2.0_alpha25.
