On 2/9/26 12:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > It took me some while to work out what you meant by "installed", > especially given that the ebuild for php-8.2.28-r1 has been deleted > (from /usr/portage/dev-lang/php/...). I think you mean that there is a > directory /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/php-8.2.28-r1, which is indeed the case. > > [ Yes, I know /usr/portage is no longer the canonical place for ebuilds > to live, but this is a system from 2017, originally. ] > > So emerge @preserved-rebuild is getting its information from > /var/db/pkg, it seems. > > It is surely a bug that the ebuild can be removed from /usr/portage/... > whilst leaving that orphan directory in place under /var/db/.... It is > true that there is a second copy of the ebuild under /var/db/.... but > emerge doesn't look there for ebuilds.
SIR!!! The package is installed because there is a file /usr/bin/php8.2 installed, and it is *the package* that installed it. ebuilds are NOT packages. They are bash scripts describing how to build a package. Removing an ebuild from /usr/portage (2017) or /var/db/repos (new canonical place) removes the bash script describing how to build it. It does NOT remove /usr/bin/php8.2, that would be insane... ... hence the package is installed, still. /var/db/pkg is not "orphaned" nor is it a bug, it is the database of installed files etc. >> If you don't need this package and emerge -pvc shows nothing requiring >> it, maybe you can just remove it (e.g. with emerge -avc)? > > I can't use emerge, because there's no ebuild for php-8.2.28-r1. It's > looking as though I'll have to delete the directory under /var/db/... by > hand, together with all the associated files throughout the system. > > Or, maybe if I let # USE='...' emerge =dev-lang/php-8.2.30 go ahead, it > will clear out the old directory in /var/db/... Maybe. > > Is this worth a bug report, or have I misunderstood something else? I already told you the same thing, though. My previous email: >> I've cleaned up my orphan packages (most of them), but don't trust >> --depclean to do so. It still wants to remove some packages I need and >> want to keep. > > It will, by definition, remove packages not in world (emerge foobar > without --oneshot). > > So, one must conclude you, for whatever reason, wished to oneshot these > packages and not add them to world. > > This is your choice and your right, but it renders depclean ineffective. > > You may run: > > emerge --depclean php:8.2 --verbose > > and due to verbose, it will tell you what package, if any, prevents > php:8.2 from being explicitly uninstalled. > > Otherwise, seek out the rest of your orphaned packages. Please run: emerge --depclean php:8.2 --verbose as I asked. -- Eli Schwartz
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