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Paul Heinlein wrote: |
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> Some time ago, I'd begun to think that perhaps the Gentoo package system |
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> on my SPARC had become somewhat corrupted. (Snip long story about |
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> SunBlades and IDE corruption...) Queries concerning installed packages |
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> seemed to execute correctly, but "emerge -uvD world" seemed to ignore |
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> packages that really needed to be upgraded. |
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This usually happens when this "important package" was installed as a dependency |
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of another package, and that other package is no longer installed or just no |
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longer depends on the first one. The real solution is to add this important |
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package to the world file. If a package isn't listed in the world file and it's |
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not a dependency of a package listed in the world file, it won't be caught by |
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'emerge -uD world'. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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