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From: Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:57:46
Message-Id: 1121654958.11397.47.camel@tux
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world? by Mark Knecht
1 The emerge --deep command did throw up a few others.
2 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r4 [1.8-r2]
3 [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9b [1.0.8]
4 [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9b [1.0.8]
5 [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9 [1.0.8]
6 [ebuild U ] media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r4 [0.7.4]
7 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8
8 [ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.34
9 [ebuild U ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9 [5b-r8]
10 [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.03 [1.01-r1]
11 [ebuild R ] media-libs/netpbm-10.20
12 [ebuild R ] media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b
13 [ebuild U ] media-plugins/live-2005.01.29 [2004.07.20]
14 [ebuild R ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3
15 [ebuild U ] net-misc/curl-7.13.2 [7.13.1]
16 [ebuild U ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r9 [0.00-r8]
17 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r4 [2.1.11-r3]
18 [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25 [1.23]
19 [ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.5
20 [ebuild R ] media-sound/vorbis-tools-1.0.1
21
22 My world file looks a little sparse:
23
24 app-cdr/cdrtools
25 media-libs/libexif
26 www-client/opera
27 x11-base/xorg-x11
28 media-video/mplayer
29 media-video/transcode
30 media-sound/xmms
31 app-cdr/k3b
32 net-p2p/gtk-gnutella
33 media-libs/libsdl
34 media-video/vcdimager
35 media-gfx/imagemagick
36 dev-libs/libcdio
37 media-sound/sox
38 kde-base/kde
39 net-p2p/gift-gnutella
40 kde-base/kdelibs
41 www-client/mozilla-firefox
42 app-text/acroread
43 media-video/avifile
44
45 The world file on my 2.6 system has a lot more in it, though I'm not sure that simply copying over the world file would be the right thing to do.
46
47 Any suggestions about how to recover my original world file?
48
49 Thanks
50
51 Jeff
52
53 On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
54 > Hi,
55 > what happens with the command
56 >
57 > emerge --deep --update --newuse world
58 >
59 > and what's in your world file? (/var/lib/portage/world)
60 >
61 > Cheers,
62 > Mark
63 >
64 > On 7/17/05, Jeff Cranmer <jcranmer01@×××××××××.net> wrote:
65 > > Hi,
66 > >
67 > > I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use
68 > > Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6
69 > >
70 > > I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I
71 > > perform an emerge -up world, I do not see any packages requiring update.
72 > > When I start checking individual packages, however, I find a lot of
73 > > out-of-date software.
74 > >
75 > > Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why my 'world' portage group appears
76 > > to be empty?
77 > >
78 > > The 2.6 install still works correctly and is up to date.
79 > >
80 > > Thanks
81 > >
82 > > Jeff
83 > >
84 > >
85 > > --
86 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
87 > >
88 > >
89 >
90 > --
91 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
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