Bug 24938

Summary:	cannt unmerge block(ed\|ing) packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	James Cloos <cloos>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James Cloos 2003-07-20 19:49:02 UTC

:; emerge -p perl

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B    ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.1_rc1)
[blocks B    ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.1_rc1)
[ebuild    U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.1_rc1 [5.8.0-r11] 

but

:; emerge unmerge dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1

!!! Couldn't find match for dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1

!!! Couldn't find match for dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1


Both have directories in /var/db/pkg/dev-perl/

:; emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test1-jhcr1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1000MHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 3dnow apm foomaticdb mad gtkhtml arts esd ldap aalib acl acpi alsa
apache2 avi berkdb bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups dvd encode ethereal evo flash gb gd
gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jikes jpeg
junit kde ksi lcms leim libg++ libgda libwww mikmod mmx motif mozilla mozsvg
mpeg mule nas ncurses nls nptl objc oci8 oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda
pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp postgres python qt quicktime radeon readline
ruby sasl scanner sdl slang slp snmp spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff
truetype usb wmf X xml xml2 xmms xv zlib -mysql -svga"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mmmx -msse -O2 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS=""
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg ccache keeptemp cvs"

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-20 20:50:57 UTC

proper syntax is: 
emerge unmerge dev-perl/Test-Simple dev-perl/File-Spec 
or 
emerge unmerge =dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 =dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 
or 
emerge unmerge Test-Simple File-Spec 
 
please review the manpages for more information

Comment 2 James Cloos 2003-07-21 03:08:16 UTC

OK.

I'm sure I used the syntax that does not now work in the past though.

emerge --help ought to mention something about that.