Equo rescue spmsync [Solved]

[cl00t]

I've read the wiki about mixing portage & entropy, I thought I would mention that
I've never installaed a package via emerge before, always used entropy, but I needed to use Gcstar. So I followed the instructions here:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27606&p=151306&hilit=gcstar#p151221

Gcstar installed fine, it pulled in 39 dependencies as well but they all went ok.

Did

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# equo rescue spmsync

After it had finished, magneto informed me I had 38 updates, many seemed to be the dependencies pulled in by installing Gcstar. Did

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#equo upgrade --ask

and installed updates, although they seemed to be the exact same versions as installed when emerging Gcstar. Did

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#equo deptest && equo libtest

and it pulled in 11 missing dependencies.

No missing dependencies now, libtest reports as healthy,

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#equo rescue spmsync

reports:

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# equo rescue spmsync
>>  Scanning Source Package Manager and Entropy databases for differences...
>> cannot convert COUNTER for sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-apm-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.5,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-aiptek-1.4.1,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad-1.5.0,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.6,
>>  Databases already synced.


Did I do anything wrong?

[BlackNoxis]

Nop. Just reinstall those manually, it's a Entropy thing (like a first-use).

[batvink]

with "equo rescue spmsync, you're telling Entropy what you did via Portage.
This is normal and "wanted" behaviour"
if you don't, you end up with a unstable system, or Entropy not noticed of what you did, and downgrading packages., or worse.

[cl00t]

Thanks for the replies, glad I got it right.

[cl00t]

Hello,

Something is not right here.
When I ran

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#equo rescue spmsync

afrer installing Gcstar it was before this thread https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=27818#p152182 and mine was set to

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ignore-spm-downgrades = disable

I had not edited it, this is how I found it, I have since changed it to

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ignore-spm-downgrades = enable

Anyway, when I first set this system up I installed Catfish via Entropy, now entropy doesn't think it is installed:

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# equo rescue spmsync
>>  Scanning Source Package Manager and Entropy databases for differences...
>> cannot convert COUNTER for sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for dev-util/catfish-0.3.2-r1,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-apm-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.5,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-aiptek-1.4.1,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad-1.5.0,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.6,
>>  Databases already synced.


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# equo search catfish
>>  @@ Searching...
>>      @@ Package: dev-util/catfish-0.3.2-r1 branch: 5, [sabayon-weekly]
>>         Available:     version: 0.3.2-r1 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>>         Installed:     version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      http://software.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/catfish_summary.html
>>         Description:   A frontend for find, (s)locate,
>>                        doodle, tracker, beagle, strigi
>>                        and pinot
>>         License:       GPL-2
>>  Keywords:  catfish
>>  Found:     1 entry


Catfish is installed & works well.
I followed the previous mentioned post for instructions on installing Gcstar, now I wonder if something is screwed up?

ps same for Galculator, it is installed & works well, but:

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# equo search sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4
>>  @@ Searching...
>>      @@ Package: sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4 branch: 5, [sabayon-weekly]
>>         Available:     version: 1.3.4 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>         Installed:     version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>>         Slot:          0
>>         Homepage:      http://galculator.sourceforge.net/
>>         Description:   GTK+ based algebraic and RPN calculator.
>>         License:       GPL-2
>>  Keywords:  sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4
>>  Found:     1 entry


[cl00t]

Ok, I reinstalled all packages listed in

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# equo rescue spmsync
>>  Scanning Source Package Manager and Entropy databases for differences...
>> cannot convert COUNTER for sci-calculators/galculator-1.3.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for dev-util/catfish-0.3.2-r1,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-apm-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.5,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-aiptek-1.4.1,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.4,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad-1.5.0,
>> cannot convert COUNTER for x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.6,
>>  Databases already synced.

& now I get

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# equo rescue spmsync --ask
>>  Scanning Source Package Manager and Entropy databases for differences...
>>  Databases already synced.


So it looks like all is ok now.