190554 – emerge can't uninstall a half-installed package

Bug 190554 - emerge can't uninstall a half-installed package

Summary: emerge can't uninstall a half-installed package

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23851

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-08-28 18:10 UTC by Robert Forsman
Modified:	2007-08-28 18:31 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Forsman 2007-08-28 18:10:28 UTC

If emerge fails while copying files (due to partition being full?) it leaves you with an a pile of files scattered around, and a half-installed package in /var/db/pkg that you can't uninstall (named -MERGING-something )

There needs to be a clean way to uninstall the files and reclaim the disk space.

emerge --unmerge -- -MERGING-something 
does not work.

I'm thinking a --depclean should offer to uninstall such a package.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-28 18:14:28 UTC

Dupe of Bug 137751 which is dupe of Bug 23851

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23851 ***

Comment 2 Robert Forsman 2007-08-28 18:24:09 UTC

I'm sure that solving bug 23851 would prevent the problem I had, but are you absolutely certain that there are no other ways for emerge to fail that leave behind a -MERGING directory.

Comment 3 Robert Forsman 2007-08-28 18:31:16 UTC

I was able to remove the package by renaming the directory in /var/db/pkg to something that did not begin with a -.  Then emerge --unmerge could remove it.