Bug 1587 – unmerge broken ?

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jon Nelson (RETIRED) 2002-04-07 12:58:51 UTC]

host:~# emerge -C control-center
Couldn't find any matching installed packages.
host:~# ls /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/control-center-1.4.0.4-r1/
CATEGORY  CONTENTS  PF       SLOT
CFLAGS    CXXFLAGS  PROVIDE  USE
CHOST     LICENSE   RDEPEND  control-center-1.4.0.4-r1.ebuild
host:~# 

I get the same results for gnome-vfs as well.
Same if I use unmerge instead of -C (actually, tried umerge first)

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-04-08 00:30:30 UTC]

# qpkg portage
sys-apps/portage-1.8.18 *

# qpkg openssl
dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6c-r1 *
# emerge openssl unmerge
 Couldn't find any matching installed packages.
# emerge -C openssl        
 Couldn't find any matching installed packages.

[Comment 2 Geert Bevin 2002-04-08 00:36:13 UTC]

try 'emerge --all unmerge control-center'
emerge now defaults to --safe by default as well for clean as unmerge, --all
removes all versions

[Comment 3 Tim 2002-04-08 00:39:39 UTC]

velius root # emerge unmerge net-misc/netkit-telnetd 
Couldn't find any matching installed packages. 
velius root # qpkg -I | grep telnet 
net-misc/netkit-telnetd-0.17-r2 * 
 
I tried all variants of telnetd, from telnet to netkid-telnetd-version. No 
luck. 
 

[Comment 4 Geert Bevin 2002-04-08 04:23:10 UTC]

Current cvs version of emerge provides better reporting which should remove all
confusion. It will be available in the next portage release.