Re: [gentoo-server] small tip how to really "emerge world"

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you want to get list of all possible updates after "emerge --sync",
>
> # emerge -puDvNt world
>
> ...might be not enough. If it returns "0 packages" to update, try also this
> (it takes very long time to finish, requires app-portage/portage-utils)
>
> # for f in `qlist -IC`; do emerge -puDvNt $f | grep ebuild; done

It's quite possible you have orphaned packages on your system. You might want to 
run 'emerge -p --depclean'.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead