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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:36:07
Message-Id: 7573e9640605120225i66fe287fk391393a4f0dfaa37@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) by Graham Murray
1 On 5/12/06, Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages
4 > in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that
5 > state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible
6 > packages were installed or upgraded?
7
8 How are you doing your updates? If you are not using the --deep
9 option, I am not surprised that you never saw the blockers before,
10 because portage will consider _only_ those packages actually in world
11 for an update unless you use --deep.
12
13 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>