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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:43:09 -0500 |
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Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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Well, I found the answer to my own question. From the portage man |
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page: |
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"Every time you emerge a package, the package that you |
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requested is recorded here. Then when you run `emerge |
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world -up`, the list of packages is read from this file. |
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Note that this does not mean that the packages that were |
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installed as dependencies are listed here. For example, |
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if you run `emerge mod_php` and you do not have apache |
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already, then "dev-php/mod_php" is recorded in the world |
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file but "net-www/apache" is not." |
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But to use the example of the package rpm2targz, using the command |
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"equery depends rpm2targz" I discover that media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.6 |
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is the only package that depends on rpm2targz. Thus, when I installed |
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urw-fonts, rpm2targz must have also been installed but not listed |
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in the "world" file. |
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However, this practice seems to be a bad idea. Since the time that I |
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installed urw-fonts, the package rpm2targz has been updated but I will |
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never know this unless urw-fonts also becomes updated. A similar situation |
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could exist for many other packages. Portage should by default enter all |
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packages into the "world" file. |
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Frank Peters |
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