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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: "David M. Fellows" <dmf@××××××××××××××.ca>, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2020 12:45:35
Message-Id: cdd9e09b-c2e0-3639-d540-c7ebb0b66695@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated? by "David M. Fellows"
1 On 10/02/20 16:25, David M. Fellows wrote:
2 >> On 2020-10-02 10:45, n952162 wrote:
3 >>> Have I successfully updated my system?
4 >>>
5 >>> I ran this command:
6 >>>
7 >>> emerge \
8 >>>     -v \
9 >>>     --verbose-conflicts \
10 >>>     --deep \
11 >>>     -update \
12 >>>     --changed-use \
13 >>>     --keep-going \
14 >>>     --with-bdeps=y \
15 >>>     --changed-deps \
16 >>>     --backtrack=100 \
17 >>>     @world
18 >>>
19 >>> and got tons of stuff that looks like spurious debugging/tracing info
20 > Probably not. And a good thing too.
21 > Assuming the above is an accurate transcription of the command you used.
22 >
23 > -update is definitely NOT the same as --update.
24 >
25 > -update is equivalent to -u -p -d -a -t -e
26 > so --update --pretend --debug --ask --tree --empty-tree
27 > --debug, --tree produce voluminous output,
28 > --empty-tree says rebuild everything.
29 >
30 > Hope this helps.
31 >
32 > DaveF
33 >
34 >
35
36 Yes, now my emerge is failing again in the way I'd expected it to fail  ;-)
37 Thank you for debugging for me :-)