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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking ...
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:06:52
Message-Id: 20060615195708.58c70816@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking ... by Benno Schulenberg
1 On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:49 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
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3 > > emerge --unmerge pam-login && emerge --update shadow
4 > > emerge --unmerge utempter && emerge --update libutempter
5 >
6 > No need to use --update there, --update is the default.
7
8 No it's not. emerge behaves differently when you use --update, in two
9 ways. I doesn't re-emerge the package if the same version is already
10 installed, and it updates first-level dependencies, whereas emerge without
11 update only installs the package itself, plus any required dependencies.
12
13 > Use --oneshot instead, so shadow and libutempter don't end up in
14 > your world file.
15
16 Good advice!
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20 Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking ... Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>