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zerogeny
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 Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:46 pm Post subject: unsafe unmerge |
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unmerging old versions still isnt safe enough
it looks like i killed portage because i got 'rid' of and old db version...
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lude
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:05 am Post subject: Re: unsafe unmerge |
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| zerogeny wrote: | unmerging old versions still isnt safe enough
it looks like i killed portage because i got 'rid' of and old db version...
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Berkeley db libs are not backwards compatible. If you unmerge an 'old' version you will break things. I think this is the only software in portage that behaves like this. Perhaps something should be written into portage to 'catch' software that isn't backwards compatible. |
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cedric
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Using "emerge clean" instead of "emerge unmerge" avoids this kind of problem. |
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