Bug 14614 – unmerge leaves files behind in /usr/share/doc

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Väinö Järvelä 2003-01-27 03:12:30 UTC]

Hello,


I just noticed that my /usr/share/doc -directory has lot's of duplicates of the
same programs but with different version. Versions that i have updated from but
are not available on my computer anymore.

--
qpkg -i vim-core        
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r4 *
app-editors/vim-core-6.1
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r1
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r2
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r3

ls /usr/share/doc/vim-core*
/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r2:
README.txt.gz  vim-core-6.1@

/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r3:
vim-core-6.1@

/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r4:
README.txt.gz  vim-core-6.1@
--

There are many other examples.


Regards,
V

[Comment 1 Väinö Järvelä 2003-01-27 03:12:30 UTC]

Hello,


I just noticed that my /usr/share/doc -directory has lot's of duplicates of the
same programs but with different version. Versions that i have updated from but
are not available on my computer anymore.

--
qpkg -i vim-core        
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r4 *
app-editors/vim-core-6.1
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r1
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r2
app-editors/vim-core-6.1-r3

ls /usr/share/doc/vim-core*
/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r2:
README.txt.gz  vim-core-6.1@

/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r3:
vim-core-6.1@

/usr/share/doc/vim-core-6.1-r4:
README.txt.gz  vim-core-6.1@
--

There are many other examples.


Regards,
Väinö Järvelä

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-01-28 01:33:36 UTC]

qpkg -v -nc --dups

if that gives you dups of vim-core, then please unmerge the older versions of
vim-core..

[Comment 3 Väinö Järvelä 2003-01-28 18:15:48 UTC]

Nope, i don't have duplicates of vim-core. And that is the case. vim-core was
just an example.. there are lot's of "dupe" directories in there (wine, winex,
utillinux, texinfo.......).

[Comment 4 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 20:43:44 UTC]

i think this may be side effect with portage not removing symlinks properly, at
least I noticed this since using portage-2.0.46-r12. i posted a bug and a patch
in #15403 for portage.

Although I'm not sure what makes the README.txt.gz left behind, so I could be wrong.

[Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 05:40:53 UTC]

#15403 is fixed in cvs.

[Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-02-22 07:58:27 UTC]

out shortly