waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: >> >> >> The following installed packages are not in the database: >> >> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev >> -- >> >> Equery gives me this: >> >> root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev* >> * Searching for *static-dev* ... >> !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*' >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >> Other tools report this: >> >> >> >> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev >> >> [ Results for search key : static-dev ] >> Searching... >> >> * sys-fs/static-dev >> Latest version available: 0.1 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 0 KiB >> Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 >> Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev >> License: GPL-2 >> >> [ Applications found : 1 ] >> >> root@fireball / # eix static-dev >> * sys-fs/static-dev >> Available versions: 0.1 >> Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 >> Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev >> >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it. What the heck is >> this about? Anyone else ever run into this? Is there a way to "find" >> it?? Can I remove it somehow?? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict from > ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was in 2007). > > To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running fine and > atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is. > > Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work for > any reason. :-) > > -- > Regards > wabe > >
What gets me, that MERGING is in all caps. I don't recall ever seeing a package name with caps like that. To me, it looks like something was being installed/upgraded and during the process some cruft got left behind by portage. Now I don't know that to be true but I'm grasping at straws here. I think I built this rig about 2011 or 2012. I could dig out the invoices to be sure. Anyway, mines not as old a install as yours but it has been around for a while. That has been there for a while and everything is working fine, even rebooting. Thing is, it bugs me that it is there and I don't know what exactly it is or where it came from. Also, that I can't figure out how to clean it up either. o_O I mostly want to clean it up. Maybe someone else has ran into this and has a clue, or a 2 x 4. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
