I emerge'd sync, edited package.mask then emerge -up world'd: wrote 13002 bytes read 767434 bytes 9127.91 bytes/sec total size is 21113782 speedup is 27.05 >>> Updating Portage cache... saphir root # vim /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask saphir root # emerge -up world portage: vardbapi: moving media-sound/xmms-gdancer-0.4.5 to media-plugins/xmms-g dancer-0.4.5 /bin/mv: cannot move `/var/db/pkg/media-sound/xmms-gdancer-0.4.5' to `/var/db/pk g/media-plugins/xmms-gdancer-0.4.5': No such file or directory portage: vardbapi: moving media-sound/xmms-infinity-0.2 to media-plugins/xmms-in finity-0.2 /bin/mv: cannot move `/var/db/pkg/media-sound/xmms-infinity-0.2' to `/var/db/pkg /media-plugins/xmms-infinity-0.2': No such file or directory portage: vardbapi: moving media-sound/xmms-iris-0.10 to media-plugins/xmms-iris- 0.10 /bin/mv: cannot move `/var/db/pkg/media-sound/xmms-iris-0.10' to `/var/db/pkg/me dia-plugins/xmms-iris-0.10': No such file or directory portage: vardbapi: moving media-sound/xmms-nebulus-0.2.0 to media-plugins/xmms-n ebulus-0.2.0 /bin/mv: cannot move `/var/db/pkg/media-sound/xmms-nebulus-0.2.0' to `/var/db/pk g/media-plugins/xmms-nebulus-0.2.0': No such file or directory These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r13 to / [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-0.8 to / [ebuild U ] dev-db/postgresql-7.2.2 to / [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-2.3.2-r1 to / [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.0.5-r2 to / [ebuild U ] dev-php/php-4.2.2-r1 to / [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.6 to / [ebuild U ] dev-php/mod_php-4.2.2-r1 to / [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.2 to / [ebuild U ] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.6a-r2 to / saphir root # The next emerge -up world showed no errors, but: saphir root # emerge search nebulus Searching... [ Results for search key : nebulus ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * media-plugins/xmms-nebulus Latest version Available: 0.2.0 Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ] Homepage: http://nebulus.tuxfamily.org/ Description: OpenGL/SDL visualization plugin for XMMS saphir root # and I _have_ nebulus installed. saphir root # emerge --version Portage 2.0.32 saphir profiles # ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 7 19:51 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0 saphir profiles # gcc --version 2.95.3
This will be fixed in Portage 2.0.33. Thanks :)
What's the bst eway to "repair" my package db? Just re-emerge the packages that got deleted?
