Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib"
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:39:52
Message-Id: 871tjxfy5t.fsf@einstein.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib" by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > You can win, by running it reasonably often and actually doing something
4 > about the output. Ignore a few lines and they soon become a few more, and
5 > then a few more still...
6
7 One thing I have noticed in its output is where it lists "installed
8 packages with a version not in the database (or masked)", this is often
9 (in my case) due to slotted packages where portage has only kept the
10 'highest numbered' slot updated. Is there any magic incantation to emerge
11 which would make it keep all installed slots updated?