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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:06:30
Message-Id: 20080618190622.GA2987@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:14:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > 2 ways to find out:
4 >
5 > 1. equery depends gtk2hs
6 > This method is not really reliable but works often enough
7 > to be useful
8
9 I had tried this, but it blows up and dumps out a nice backtrace which
10 might be fun for somebody, but not me :-)
11
12 > 2. emerge -avunDt world
13 > This gives a nice tree view of what is going on. Note that more than
14 > one package might want gtk2hs, so you might have to run this more
15 > than once.
16
17 Neil mentioned -t also, which does help, but xulrunner, for instance,
18 shows up with no associated packages so I have no way of telling what
19 other packages drag in what versions.
20
21 > Finally, there is no need for you to run 'emerge -pev world' to find out
22 > stuff. That fools portage into thinking nothing is obscured, everything
23 > shows up as a new package and the differences upgrades, remerges and
24 > new package is lost.
25
26 I am not sure what you mean. I need to run emerge -e world after a
27 major gcc upgrade, according to the upgrade guide. Is there a better
28 way of doing this?
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