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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pv world" output: strange differences after Portage upgrade
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:08:39
Message-Id: 200702152302.13959.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pv world" output: strange differences after Portage upgrade by "b.n."
1 On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:21:02 b.n. wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I recently upgraded Portage (and a couple of other unrelated packages).
4 > After the upgrade, I noticed that "emerge -pv world" before and after
5 > give two very different results. In particular:
6 >
7 > 1) I had a lot of sound-related packages that are no more in portage
8 > still installed. Okay, I should get rid of them.
9 > BEFORE: emerge -pv warned me of all these packages.
10 > AFTER: emerge -pv warns me of only one package (djplay)
11
12 Due to bug #48195 [1] being fixed. Installed packages can now satisfy a
13 dependency even if it isn't in the tree or in an overlay that's present.
14
15 > 2) I still have to upgrade dbus to 1.0.2
16 > BEFORE: the dbus upgrade was in the -pv output
17 > AFTER: It seems the dbus upgrade is no more in emerge -pv world.
18
19 This seems weird. What's the output of `emerge -pv dbus` with portage 2.1.2?
20
21 > 3) I am currently running GCC 4.1.x, but I am keeping gcc 3.3 and 3.4
22 > installed (I could probably get rid of gcc 3.3.x, but whatever...)
23 > BEFORE: no gcc upgrade was required
24 > AFTER: Portage wants me to upgrade gcc 3.3.6 and 3.4.6 to their minor
25 > upgrades.
26
27 Due to bug #4698 [2] and some of the referenced bugs on that being fixed.
28 Portage 2.1.1 only upgraded the latest installed slot of any slotted package.
29
30 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/48195
31 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/4698
32
33 --
34 Bo Andresen