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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:49:09
Message-Id: 200806182219.48859.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world? by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Wednesday 18 June 2008, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:14:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > 2 ways to find out:
4 > >
5 > > 1. equery depends gtk2hs
6 > > This method is not really reliable but works often enough
7 > > to be useful
8 >
9 > I had tried this, but it blows up and dumps out a nice backtrace
10 > which might be fun for somebody, but not me :-)
11
12 emerge depends -a gtk2hs
13 gives more detail. The only package that shows up here is
14 app-portage/himerge. Do you have this installed?
15
16 [snip]
17
18 > > Finally, there is no need for you to run 'emerge -pev world' to
19 > > find out stuff. That fools portage into thinking nothing is
20 > > obscured, everything shows up as a new package and the differences
21 > > upgrades, remerges and new package is lost.
22 >
23 > I am not sure what you mean. I need to run emerge -e world after a
24 > major gcc upgrade, according to the upgrade guide. Is there a better
25 > way of doing this?
26
27 My mistake, I missed the fact that this was after a gcc upgrade
28
29
30 --
31 Alan McKinnon
32 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world? felix@×××××××.com