Bug 1000

Summary:	emerge --unmerge leaves messes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brandon Low (RETIRED) <lostlogic>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lostlogic
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-07 12:42:44 UTC

If packages are merged and unmerged in somewhat strange orders it appears that
they leave big messes all over /var/db/pkg which leads to problems with
pkg-clean and other tools.  What appears to happen is that under (exact
circumstances unknown) certain conditions packages (for instance gimp-1.2.3-r1)
will leave pkd-db entries under (for instance gimp-1.2.3) a higher level version
deffinition, this confuses qpkg, pkg-clean and other tools.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-07 15:52:20 UTC

this is probably due to a beta of Portage that was on your system.  I don't
think it's an actual portage bug.  We had a portage that behaved this way for a
while.

Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-07 15:57:25 UTC

that could be... I wish I had noted the mtimes on stuff before I cleaned up the
mess in /var/db/pkg what a waste of but #1000 ;-)