Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:08:27
Message-Id: 20070314175655.688730c3@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1 by Albert Hopkins
1 On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:18:54 +0000, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2
3 > But if you truly want to do an "upgrade", would it not be better to do a
4 > "emerge -Duva" world as opposed to "emerge -eva". "-eva" isn't
5 > upgrading anything, it's just re-building what you already have, but
6 > since many things you have currently no longer exist in portage, it's
7 > likely better to -u instead of -e.
8
9 emerge -e world upgrades too, because it considers that you have nothing
10 installed, so it tries to install the latest version. However, emerge
11 -uDN world is sufficient as it will cover all updates and USE flag
12 changes.
13
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who
19 think.(Horace Walpole)

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