1.1

What happens when you try emerge --update --deep --newuse world?

--update on its own doesn't pull in all dependencies, where python is
almost certain to be a deep dependency of one of the world emerged
packages.

Cheers,

Peter

2008/7/15 Derek Harland <derek@...>:
> I've a query regarding the use of --oneshot in the bootstrap process.  This
> results in a some merged ebuilds that don't appear in the world file ...
> should this be the case??
>
> As it stands, "emerge --update world" will then miss updates on packages
> that were used in the bootstrap process.
>
> For example, I built my prefix based upon instructions here
>
>        http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml
>
> Now if I say
>
>        $ emerge --pretend --update world | grep python
>        -> NO OUTPUT
>
> But there are updates available!
>
>        $ emerge --pretend --update python | grep python
>        [ebuild     U ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5 [0.4]
>        [ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r5 [2.5.2-r4]
>
> More generally, if I compare the outputs when I pass -e or not
>        emerge --pretend -e world | grep ebuild | cut -c 17- | sort
>        emerge --pretend world | grep ebuild | cut -c 17- | sort
>
> then it seems there are 25 merged ebuilds that aren't in the world file.
>
> des.
>
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