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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --update Question
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:58:50
Message-Id: 200909081457.16209.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --update Question by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Tuesday 08 September 2009 12:58:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 8 Sep, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 > > On 09/08/2009 01:45 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
4 > >> Hi,
5 > >>
6 > >> running (with portage 2.2_rc40)
7 > >> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --deep @system @world
8 > >>
9 > >> it fails to upgrade e.g. kde-base/thumbnailers
10 > >>
11 > >> eix -e kde-base/thumbnailers shows that
12 > >> 4.3.0 is installed and 4.3.1 is available
13 > >> (I have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" in /etc/make.conf)
14 > >>
15 > >> What's going on - please explain.
16 > >
17 > > Well, please first explain why it doesn't update. It *must* print some
18 > > sort of error message (or else how would you know that it doesn't
19 > > update?)
20 >
21 > I don't know if it would update, but it doesn't show so with the --ask
22 > option. Here is my output
23 >
24 > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1k --ask --update --deep @system @world
25 >
26 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
27
28 $ grep -r thumbnailers /var/portage/kde-base/*
29 /var/portage/kde-base/kdegraphics-meta/kdegraphics-meta-4.3.0.ebuild: >=kde-
30 base/thumbnailers-${PV}:${SLOT}[kdeprefix=]
31 /var/portage/kde-base/kdegraphics-meta/kdegraphics-meta-4.3.1.ebuild: >=kde-
32 base/thumbnailers-${PV}:${SLOT}[kdeprefix=]
33
34
35 So I'll bet that you have kdegraphics-meta-4.3.0 in world which won't pull in
36 thumbnailers.
37
38 To verify: grep kde /var/lib/portage/world
39
40 And, you did check the contents of package.keywords and package.mask, right?
41
42 --
43 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com