On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> Well, I tried "emerge mc" and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the > >> process. Then "emerge --resume" emerged mc. Now "emerge --resume" > >> gives the same strange message again. ;-) > > > > emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file > > located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably > > stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not > > available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful > > emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge > > to believe that there's nothing to resume. > > Thank you! > > Removing that file did the trick.
The mtimedb contains a lot more than the resume list. The following command will show you it's contents: # python -c 'import portage;print portage.mtimedb' Removing it seems rather pointless IMO. The resume list gets overwritten if you emerge a list of packages rather than just one package. Either way it's contents is irrelevant when you don't need to resume a list of packages. -- Bo Andresen
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