Re: [gentoo-dev] potential update world bug

[George Shapovalov]

Really a quickie to check if that was the misspelling in the email or in your 
command:
did you do
emerge --update world?
       ^^
or really "emerge update world" as you wrote?

George

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 18:13, Ryan Breen wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been using Gentoo for the last several months, and I've noticed for
> the last month that 'emerge update world' after an 'emerge --clean rsync'
> never yields any updates.  I currently have 75 packages in my
> /var/cache/edb/world file, and I have verified several occasions where
> rsync has noted an update to one of the packages that is not handled by an
> 'update world'.
>
> I have also verified that the packages were not masked and
> /etc/make.conf/profiles looked like it was setup properly for those
> packages. Manual calls to update those packages work fine.  I noticed this
> with updates to xmms, avifile, pan, and kde (3.0-3.01).
>
> I've only begun to dig into this problem, but I was wondering if anyone on
> this list could give me pointers to likely causes, enlightening log files,
> etc that could trim my debug time.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ryan