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On 12/14/2009 07:43 PM, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> Today, doing an "emerge -pvDu world" I get the report that no packages |
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> need to be updated. |
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> But while checking the status of another package, I happen to execute |
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> "emerge -pv rpm2targz." This then reports that the package rpm2targz |
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> needs to be updated. |
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> Why didn't the "emerge -pvDu world" tell me about this? |
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> Further checking reveals that all packages that are installed on my |
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> machine are contained in the /var/db/pkg directory. However, the "world" |
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> file, which is located at /var/lib/portage/world, should contain the same |
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> listing but it does not. I notice that some packages in /var/db/pkg |
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> are not listed in /var/lib/portage/world. |
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> Actually, the "world" file has 257 entries, while the "/var/lib/portage/world" |
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> directory contains 414 packages. |
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> Why has portage failed to add all packages to the "world" file? |
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> Have I been doing something wrong? |
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> In any case, I can rebuild the world file manually to accurately |
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> reflect the state my system, but, based upon this current observation, |
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> portage may fail to keep it accurate in the future. |
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> What is going on here? |
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What's going on is that you missed a few stuff about how Gentoo works :P |
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The world file contains the packages you merged yourself, not |
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dependencies of packages pulled-in automatically. Packages that are |
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dependencies of other packages should never be in world. |
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"emerge -pvDu world" will not update packages that are build-time |
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dependencies of other packages (as opposed to run-time deps). If you |
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want build-time deps updated too, you should also specify |
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"--with-bdeps=y" in the emerge command. |
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Hope that helps :) |
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