[gentoo-user] Re: Being uypdated or not being updated ?

[Jonathan Callen]

On 07/17/2016 12:05 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the reason for this:
>
> box:/root>emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --tree --keep-going --backtrack=30 --exclude media-video/nvidia-settings --exclude app-misc/screen --exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers @world -v
> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/cross-armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi: >
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
> Nothing to merge; quitting.
>
> box:/root>eix nvidia-drivers
> [U] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>      Available versions:  [M]96.43.23-r1(0/96)^msd [M]173.14.39-r1(0/173)^msd 304.131(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r1(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r4(0/304)^md 340.93-r1(0/340)^msd 340.96(0/340)^msd (~)340.96-r5(0/340)^md 346.96-r1(0/346)^msd (~)346.96-r6(0/346)^md 352.63(0/352)^msd 352.79(0/352)^msd (~)352.79-r4(0/352)^md (~)355.00.27(0/355.00)^fmd 355.11-r2(0/355)^msd (~)355.11-r4(0/355)^md 358.16-r1(0/358)^msd (~)358.16-r5(0/358)^md 361.28(0/361)^msd (~)361.28-r2(0/361)^md (~)361.42(0/361)^md (~)361.45.11(0/361.45)^md (~)361.45.18(0/361.45)^md (~)364.12-r1(0/364)^md (~)364.15(0/364)^md (~)364.19(0/364)^md (~)367.18(0/367)^md (~)367.27(0/367)^md (~)367.35(0/367)^md {+X acpi compat custom-cflags +driver gtk gtk2 gtk3 +kms multilib pax_kernel static-libs (+)tools uvm wayland KERNEL="FreeBSD linux"}
>      Installed versions:  367.27^md(22:10:56 07/12/16)(X driver kms multilib uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools -wayland KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD")
>      Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/ http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx
>      Description:         NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver
>
> box:/root>
>
>
> Emerge says: Nothing to merge, while eix marks nvidia-drivers as
> updateable....
>
> The oracle has spoken to me ...
>
>
> Hmmm....
>
>
> Best regards,
> Meino
>
>
>
>

You explicitly told emerge not to update nvidia-drivers ("--exclude
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"), and emerge is doing exactly what you told
it to -- not updating nvidia-drivers.  If you were to remove the
"--exclude" parts of your emerge command line, you might see different
results.

-- 
Jonathan Callen