Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pvuND world" versus "emerge -pveuND world"

[Trey Gruel]

On 10/11/06, Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Which is normal because an up to date system doesn't have to download
> anything. But when i add the emptytree option "emerge -pveuND world" i
> get this (output reduced):
>
> > emerge -pveuND world
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > ...
> > Calculating world dependencies  ..... ....... done!
> > [ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/binutils    [2.16.1-r3]    USE="nls
> > -multislot -multitarget -test -vanilla" 109 kB
> > ...
> > [ebuild  N    ] net-dialup/ppp        [2.4.3-r16]    USE="gtk ipv6
> > pam -activefilter -atm -dhcp -eap-tls -mppe-mppc -radius" 55 kB
> > ...
> >
> > Total size of downloads: 164 kB
>
> So why are there appearing some apps now for which portage has to
> download something? Using eix on sys-devel/binutils and net-dialup/ppp
> tells me that i have exactly those ebuilds listed above installed.
>
> I think that there have been made changes to this ebuild without
> increasing the version number. For example binutils from 2.16.1-r3 to
> 2.16.1-r4. So portage doesn't upgrade this package although there have
> been changes. Or is there a portage option i don't know until now which
> i have to use for getting this apps updated. Am i guessing right in any
> of this cases or is this another problem with portage?

Actually, with the 'emptytree' option, it should be trying to rebuild
everything in your 'world' set along with the dependancies using their
current versions and use flags.  I'm guessing that the odd behavior is
because you're using it in conjunction with 'uND'.  'Update' and
'newuse' go against part of what 'emptytree' does, and 'emptytree' is
as 'deep' as it gets. :)

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Trey
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