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eddieparker
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 Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: "world" file is 0 bytes? |
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Hello!
I'm trying to do an 'emerge depclean' (I'm running low on space), and I'm getting an error that my world file doesn't exist.. To be quite anal, that's not true - the world file exists, it's simply 0 bytes.
I'm not 1oo% sure what a world file is, but if I were to make an educated guess, it would be one that contains a list of all the packages installed, and their version numbers, or some such...
Which is weird - because emerge -u world seems to work, when a new ebuild is up... So I'm curious what's going on?
And most importantly, How do I rebuild my world file? I'm trying an 'emerge regen', but I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Your help would be most appreciated! 
Cheers,
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Earthwings
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moocha
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Even better (actually much, much better) use ecatmur's "dep" script to properly (re)generate the world file: | Code: | wget http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/dep
chmod +x dep
dep --help |
eddieparker: The world file doesn't hold info on all packages installed and doesn't hold any version numbers. What it holds is a list of all packages that you have explicitely emerged (i.e. anything you've emerged via "emerge packagename", with the exception of packages that you've emerged with "emerge --oneshot packagename"). It doesn't hold packages that have been pulled into the system as dependencies of what you emerged.
For example, if you do | Code: | | emerge net-analyzer/tcpdump |
that will pull in the net-libs/libpcap package as well - but only the net-analyzer/tcpdump package will show up in the world file.
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