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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:32:19
Message-Id: 001a01c70a11$9329a410$450a0a0a@locutus
1 I always found this annoying...
2
3 How come when I emerge something, my 'esearch' isn't updated until the next
4 time I do an 'esync'?
5
6 * www-apps/trac
7 Latest version available: 0.9.6
8 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
9 Size of downloaded files: 995 kB
10 Homepage: http://trac.edgewall.com/
11 Description: Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki
12 and bug/issue tracking system.
13 License: trac
14
15 But I *DO* have it installed....
16
17 daevid ~ # emerge -av trac
18 [ebuild R ] www-apps/trac-0.9.6 USE="cgi sqlite -enscript -fastcgi
19 -postgres -silvercity -vhosts" 331 kB
20
21 Then if I do an 'esync' it shows (and in some kind of ironic slap in my
22 face, THEN it shows me there is an update, so I have to re-emerge it to be
23 current):
24
25 * www-apps/trac
26 Latest version available: 0.10.1
27 Latest version installed: 0.9.6
28 Size of downloaded files: 1,288 kB
29 Homepage: http://trac.edgewall.com/
30 Description: Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki
31 and bug/issue tracking system.
32 License: trac
33
34 Why can't portage just be smart enough (and "smart" is a very generous term
35 for the code neede to update this) to update whatever
36 record/file/log/whatever it is that shows what I have installed?!
37
38 This seems so silly and like a 0.0.3 kind of feature to put in to portage.
39
40 I've added this as a bug since I didn't see one in there already:
41 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155452
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