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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 14:01:59
Message-Id: 201005041516.08040.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch writes:
2
3 > My 'standard' way of updating is
4 > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree
5 > @system @world
6 >
7 > but it didn't update anything.
8 >
9 > Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have
10 > newer versions, and indeed,
11 > emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/)
12 > upgraded 24 packages.
13 >
14 > Where does this discrepancy come from?
15
16 I guess those packages are not in your /var/lib/portage/world file (or in
17 a set in /var/lib/portage/world_sets), and nothing in there depends on
18 them. Try emerge -p --depclean and see if they are listed. If so, use
19 emerge -n to add them to world.
20
21 Wonko