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From: Tim Allingham <deserted@×××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:20:49
Message-Id: 1186326826.18701.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency? by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 16:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote:
3 > > So, emerge portage results in one package being
4 > > installed, portage, 61kb.
5 > >
6 > > emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus
7 > > portage, 18Mb.
8 > >
9 > > Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring
10 > > later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it.
11 > >
12 > > But this is what happens:
13 > >
14 > > heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -pv portage
15 > >
16 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
17 > >
18 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
19 > > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9 USE="-build
20 > > -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
21 > >
22 > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0
23 > > kB
24 > >
25 > > What I expected.
26 > >
27 > > heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -puv portage
28 > >
29 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
30 > >
31 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
32 > >
33 > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
34 > >
35 > > So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now?
36 >
37 > Because --update stops calculating deps when none of the specified targets
38 > need updating. Only --deep checks the consistency of all dependencies even
39 > when none of the targets need updating. You could argue it's a deficiency in
40 > portage (although well-known)..
41 >
42
43 meaning that an emerge -pvuD world/portage should show the upgrades

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency? Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency? "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>