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ian douglas wrote: |
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>I've been using Gentoo since one of the 2003 releases, and never |
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understood this |
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>behavior and was wondering if someone could enlighten me: |
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>Currently on a 2005.0 install: |
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># emerge --sync;emerge -puvN world |
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>( spits out the usual sync output, and ends with this: ) |
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>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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>Calculating world dependencies ...done! |
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>Total size of downloads: 0 kB |
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>So I think to myself, "Self, there's nothing to update." |
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>But I saw a security update yesterday for 'gaim' which I *have* |
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installed, so |
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>for kicks, I do the following: |
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># emerge -puvN gaim |
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>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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>Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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>... |
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>[ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.7 [2.6.4-r1] -debug -doc +jpeg -static +tiff |
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>11,174 kB |
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>... |
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>[ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.3.1 [1.3.0] -cjk -debug +eds -gnutls -krb4 +nas |
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>+nls +perl -silc +spell* +tcltk 5,725 kB |
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>Total size of downloads: 37,862 kB |
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>... why wouldn't "emerge -puvN world" pick up on all of these available |
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>upgrades? |
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Well, actually thats not that uncommon. |
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first of all (some people will disagree with me on this) |
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# emerge -avuDN world |
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does a much more through job, because it not only checks the packages |
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you have installed, but all the dependancies to make sure they are up |
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to date.. for example gtk+ is a dependancy of gaim.. so when it checks |
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to see if gaim is uptodate, it would also check gtk+ to see if it is |
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uptodate. |
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Secondly.. |
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# regenworld |
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run that command occassionally as sometimes things that get emerged |
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for whatever reason are not part of the world file AND not a direct |
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dependancy of something and so the emerge -avuDN world would not check |
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-- running this command will check and add these entries to the world |
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file so they will be included with updates. |
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I hope this helps, btw this doesnt belong in -dev, but its not a big |
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deal.. |
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Regards, Andrew |
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