Bug 26167 – When emergeing a new version of any package the new version is removed immediatly after being merged

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29324
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Alex Stevenson 2003-08-07 19:33:10 UTC]

When emergeing a new version of any package the new version is removed 
immediatly after being merged. The old version of the package is left alone, 
however any files that the new version changed are removed. I'm dealing with 
it now by unmergeing the old package first where possible, or building 
binaries where that does not work. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge any out of date package 
2. 
3. 
Actual Results:  
All the files from the new version of the package were missing. 

Expected Results:  
Unmerged the old version leaving the new version alone. 

emerge info shows the following: 
Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4,2.3.2-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /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="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/local/temp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ 
mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms 
xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga java X sdl 
gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl 
mozilla cdr alsa dvd curl fbcon perl scanner tcltk tiff usb Xaw3d gtk2" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
-foptimize-sibling-calls" 
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
-foptimize-sibling-calls" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j1" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv"

[Comment 1 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-08-10 15:04:20 UTC]

Can you show me example?

[Comment 2 Alex Stevenson 2003-08-13 12:38:09 UTC]

Created attachment 16060 [details]
Output from emerge 

This is the output emerge gave when I ran emerge mc to update from version
4.6.0 to 4.6.0-r1. I've cut out down to show only the important stuff(I think).

[Comment 3 Alex Stevenson 2003-08-13 12:38:23 UTC]

Created attachment 16061 [details]
Output from emerge 

This is the output emerge gave when I ran emerge mc to update from version
4.6.0 to 4.6.0-r1. I've cut out down to show only the important stuff(I think).

[Comment 4 Alex Stevenson 2003-08-13 12:39:00 UTC]

Created attachment 16062 [details]
Output from emerge 

This is the output emerge gave when I ran emerge mc to update from version
4.6.0 to 4.6.0-r1. I've cut out down to show only the important stuff(I think).

[Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-08-15 17:11:07 UTC]

You somehow have a counter issue. It's not normal.

rm -f /var/cache/edb/counter

Then emerge something.

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-09-30 12:44:19 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29324 ***