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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: strangeness with emerge -uD world [solved]
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:17:51
Message-Id: 20080801232350.00126383@bellgrove.remarqs.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strangeness with emerge -uD world by Andrey Falko
1 On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:25 -0700
2 "Andrey Falko" <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:42 PM, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
5 > > I'm using portage-2.1.4.4.
6 > >
7 > > $ emerge -pqu world
8 > > [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.1 [2.0.0.16]
9 > >
10 > > but
11 > >
12 > > $ emerge -pqu --deep world
13 > >
14 > > gives no output. I've never seen --deep cause fewer updates. What
15 > > am I missing? I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" in
16 > > make.conf, and I don't know what more info to post.
17 >
18 > Is Firefox in /var/lib/portage/world? If not, do you intend Firefox to
19 > be a dependency? The only "legitimate" behavior I see is that Firefox
20 > is a dependency for a package that is not part of your world.
21
22 I think I see now what caused this. It happened after I added Fx 3.0.1
23 to package.keywords.
24
25 `emerge -u world` was pulling in mozilla-firefox-3.0.1 because it was
26 in world, but `emerge -uD world` was not pulling it in because I have
27 installed packages which have mozilla-firefox-2* as a dependency.
28
29 Now that I've installed mozilla-firefox-3.0.1, `emerge -uD world` wants
30 to downgrade me to 2.0.0.16, and `emerge -u world` doesn't see
31 anything to do.
32
33 --
34 »Q«

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: strangeness with emerge -uD world [solved] Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: strangeness with emerge -uD world [solved] Zhou Rui <ghoulr@×××××.com>