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From: "Yuri K. Shatroff" <yks-uno@××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge BUG?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:41:52
Message-Id: 52B41EE3.3060809@yandex.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge BUG? by Neil Bothwick
1 20.12.2013 13:53, Neil Bothwick пишет:
2 > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:47:25 +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
3 >
4 >>> What is the contents of /var/lib/portage/world?
5 >
6 >> Hm, really, it's almost empty except for the last packages I have added
7 >> yesterday... So that's clearly not an emerge bug, but ... Could
8 >> anything mess it up?
9 >
10 > Plenty, with the favourite being user error. If the packages aren't in
11 > world nor depended on by something n world, portage will not upgrade them.
12 >
13 >> I have copied the system to a new HDD recently and done an `emerge
14 >> @world`, too, and everything went OK.
15 >
16 > OK as in everything you expected to build built? Or OK as in no error
17 > messages appeared?
18
19 The former. When I do an eix-sync, I expect that emerge -Du @world
20 updates every package listed with the U-mark.
21 There are no error messages anyway.
22
23 > Your first step would be to restore the world file
24 > from the old drive, adding the entries from the current version.
25
26 I'll do this, but now I'm just wondering how I ended up with an empty
27 world file.
28
29 --
30 Regards,
31 Yuri K. Shatroff

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge BUG? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>