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From: Erik <esigra@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" fails to update all packages
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:41:15
Message-Id: 47BFEAAF.9070403@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" fails to update all packages by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico skrev:
2 > Erik wrote:
3 > > I did "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" and it says:
4 > > Calculating world dependencies... done!
5 > >>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
6 > >>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
7 >
8 > > But it seems like it is wrong about "No outdated packages were found on
9 > > your system.", because when I run "emerge -p world" it says:
10 >
11 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
12 >
13 > > Calculating world dependencies... done!
14 > > [ebuild U ] media-gfx/digikam-0.9.2 [0.9.1] LINGUAS="-fa% -nds%"
15 > > [blocks B ] media-plugins/digikamimageplugins (is blocking
16 > > media-gfx/digikam-0.9.2)
17 >
18 >
19 > > So it seems like media-gfx/digikam is outdated despite what "emerge
20 > > --update --deep --newuse world" said. I just wonder how much sense this
21 > > behaviour makes.
22 >
23 >
24 > It seems like something that you have installed depends on
25 > digikam-0-9.1 so the deep world update pulled that in instead of the
26 > new version. You can use the --debug option if you want to examine
27 > the dependency strings to see which package pulled in the lower version.
28 That package depending on digikam-0.9.1 would be digikamimageplugins.
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Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --update --deep --newuse world" fails to update all packages Michael Niggli <m.niggli@×××××.com>