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From: Edward Hades <edward.hades@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:23:30
Message-Id: 1237d2d70806140823n1c72c333md6dd2217f174742f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update by Peter Wood
1 I don't know what the underlying cause is, I've asked multiple times
2 of it, but got no reply. The portage does miss some of the updatable
3 packages.
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5 I can only recommend something like 'eix -u --only-names | xargs
6 emerge -u', or less automated 'emerge -pev world | grep " U "', then
7 emerge listed packages.
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9 On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Peter Wood <p2wood@×××××××××.ca> wrote:
10 > Hi,
11 > I just ran eix-sync and it informs me that there are updates available for 2
12 > packages (Archiv-Tar and Archive-Zip). Both packages are pulled in by othe
13 > packages that are either in world or system. The current versions are not
14 > locked anywhere, nor are the new ones masked as far as I can tell. Still,
15 > emerge --update --deep world
16 > and
17 > emerge --update --deep system
18 > tell me that there are no updates to install.
19 > I did emerge --metadata and emerge --regen, but the result is the same.
20 > Does anybody have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
21 > Thanks,
22 > Peter
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