On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between > > updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or > > back room somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log > > in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to > > updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's > > just wrong. > > Mark, > > This might be worth discussing.
Alan, This evening I found eix-test-obsolete. It looks to me like while it probably doesn't do all of what we've been discussing it might possibly be helpful. While it doesn't look like it fixes the problems I've been seeing it does identify some interesting inconsistencies on my desktop machine. <SNIP> Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): [D] media-tv/mythtv ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/2008 -> 0.20.2_p15634): Homebrew PVR project [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (2.6.23-r3(2.6.23-r3)@01/16/2008 2.6.23-r6(2.6.23-r6)@01/25/2008 2.6.23-r8(2.6.23-r8)@02/20/2008 2.6.24-r3(2.6.24-r3)@03/18/2008 2.6.24-r4(2.6.24-r4)@04/11/2008 -> 2.6.16-r13 2.6.19-r5 2.6.23-r9 2.6.24-r3 2.6.24-r4): Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree [D] x11-themes/mythtv-themes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/2008 -> 0.20.2_p14301): A collection of themes for the MythTV project. [1] /usr/local/portage <SNIP> Still, if rsync is going to throw things away while making my machine identical to the server then I'm not going to be in great shape. Anyway, interesting tool if you haven't seen it. (I'm sure you have...) Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
