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On 02:41 Sat 23 Feb , Erik wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon skrev: |
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> "emerge -uNDf world" does nothing because the system is up to date. Even if |
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> all distfiles are missing, it does nothing (try to move the distfiles |
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> directory away while executing it). That command is supposed to "download |
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> everything that is missing to update the system". And since the system is |
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> up to date, nothing is needed to update it and it will therefore not |
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> download anything. |
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> What I wanted was "download everything that is missing to reinstall |
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> everything that is currently installed". That is what "emerge -ef world" |
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> should do. Then I wanted to "remove everything that is not needed to |
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> reinstall everything that is currently installed". That is what "eclean |
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> --destructive distfiles" should do. Doing both should result in a set of |
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> distfiles that is "what is needed and only what is needed to reinstall |
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> everything that is currently installed (assuming that the system is up to |
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> date)". But since the 2 commands do not agree, something is broken |
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> somewhere. |
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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Have you checked to see if the files deleted by eclean are the current |
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versions, or are they old? If they are the most recent you have |
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installed, then there is a problem with eclean. If not, then the problem |
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is with --fetchonly |
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