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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] deep-no, update-no, deep update-yes
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:37:01
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b05092507297de482f5@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2 This one is just for my education. Thanks in advance.
3
4 Why is it that some updates are not found by --deep, not found by
5 --update, but then found by --deep --update together? I think the
6 comes from my limited understanding of what the --update option is
7 really doing. Anyway, the following example is not unique. It happens
8 all the time.
9
10 dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv world
11
12 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
13
14 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
15
16 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
17 dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --update world
18
19 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
20
21 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
22
23 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
24 dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --deep world
25
26 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
27
28 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
29
30 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
31 dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --deep --update world
32
33 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
34
35 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
36 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2 [1.8.3-r1] +berkdb 0 kB
37
38 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
39 dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --deep --update --tree world
40
41 These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
42
43 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
44 [nomerge ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01
45 [nomerge ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 +berkdb -build -debug
46 -doc +gdbm -ithreads -minimal -perlsuid
47 [nomerge ] sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2 -bootstrap -doc +java
48 -nocxx +tcltk
49 [nomerge ] dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02
50 -browserplugin +mozilla
51 [nomerge ] dev-java/java-config-1.2.11
52 [nomerge ] dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2 +X +berkdb
53 -bootstrap -build -doc +gdbm +ipv6 +ncurses -nocxx +readline +ssl
54 +tcltk -ucs2
55 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2 [1.8.3-r1] +berkdb 0 kB
56
57 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
58 dragonfly ~ #
59
60 Thanks,
61 Mark
62
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Re: [gentoo-user] deep-no, update-no, deep update-yes Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>