On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Unless someone comes up with some addition info on things I should do > > to clean this up more completely I figure I got a little bit of > > education which is cool. > > There was a post to this list explaining this not long ago. AFAIR, the > MERGING entries in /var/db/pkg are created while emerge is copying the > files from the temporary build location to the live filesystem. If they > are still there, it means that the merge was aborted, perhaps by a crash > or flat battery, at a potentially critical point. While it should be safe > to remove these, you should re-emerge the package to make sure your > installation is consistent. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Thanks Neil. Makes perfect sense and since the -MERGING directory was for an older version and I now have a newer version installed I think I'm in good shape. Thanks again for the input. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
