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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 |
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this case, 'world' is the atom. 'emerge world' will REINSTALL every atom |
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in your world file (.../var/lib/portage/world). The canonical way to |
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UPDATE all packages is with the short options "-uDN", emerge -pvuDN |
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world. |
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To break that down further, if you were trying to install |
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'app-editors/vim' then 'emerge vim' would install vim the first time and |
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keep reinstalling vim every subsequent time, but 'emerge -u vim' would |
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only update vim if needed. |
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Hope that helps, |
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Jeremy |