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From: Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:40:39
Message-Id: 200806141740.29083.loki_val@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update by Peter Wood
1 On Saturday 14 June 2008, Peter Wood wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I just ran eix-sync and it informs me that there are updates
4 > available for 2 packages (Archiv-Tar and Archive-Zip). Both packages
5 > are pulled in by othe packages that are either in world or system.
6 > The current versions are not locked anywhere, nor are the new ones
7 > masked as far as I can tell. Still,
8 > emerge --update --deep world
9 > and
10 > emerge --update --deep system
11 > tell me that there are no updates to install.
12 > I did emerge --metadata and emerge --regen, but the result is the
13 > same. Does anybody have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
14
15 Does
16 emerge --with-bdeps y -uDNav world
17 Do it for you?
18
19 The problem comes from Portage not updating build-dependencies until a
20 package is rebuilt. --with-bdeps y makes portage consider both build
21 and runtime-dependencies.
22
23 --
24 /PA

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