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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2011-09-13 15:55, Askar Bektassov wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> My question is straightforward, under what circumstances emerge world |
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>> re-emerges packages even if installed and updated? |
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> So, strictly speaking, emerge takes an atom and will install that. In this |
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> case, 'world' is the atom. 'emerge world' will REINSTALL every atom in your |
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> world file (.../var/lib/portage/world). The canonical way to UPDATE all |
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> packages is with the short options "-uDN", emerge -pvuDN world. |
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Jeremy, |
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What a swift response! You effectively addressed my question: is it possible |
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that when I was using Gentoo/Linux few years ago (<2007), portage behaved |
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the way you described even if the user was not appending the --update |
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option? |
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I might be wrong, but my memory suggests that on several machines with |
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Gentoo/Linux installed from stage 1 I ended up using emerge world without |
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the -u option and it always did the right thing (updating packages to the |
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best version). |
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Thank you in advance, |
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Askar Bektassov |
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(Аскар Бектасов) |