From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-amd64+bounces-12219-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NKFDh-0000Lv-Gt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EF83E099D for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F4EE0965 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by QMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id H1g41d0050FhH24AE5jErP; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:14 +0000 Received: from ajax.firstbooks ([68.42.192.6]) by OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id H5jD1d00708kLH88U5jDq1; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:14 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:43:09 -0500 From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Portage Fails To Find Updates Message-Id: <20091214124309.fb40ca6e.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.5; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f2e538e0-0271-476b-b2f9-f15f12d61b81 X-Archives-Hash: 43563e283d50dca23f7f86a3795fe0d1 Today, doing an "emerge -pvDu world" I get the report that no packages need to be updated. But while checking the status of another package, I happen to execute "emerge -pv rpm2targz." This then reports that the package rpm2targz needs to be updated. Why didn't the "emerge -pvDu world" tell me about this? Further checking reveals that all packages that are installed on my machine are contained in the /var/db/pkg directory. However, the "world" file, which is located at /var/lib/portage/world, should contain the same listing but it does not. I notice that some packages in /var/db/pkg are not listed in /var/lib/portage/world. Actually, the "world" file has 257 entries, while the "/var/lib/portage/world" directory contains 414 packages. Why has portage failed to add all packages to the "world" file? Have I been doing something wrong? In any case, I can rebuild the world file manually to accurately reflect the state my system, but, based upon this current observation, portage may fail to keep it accurate in the future. What is going on here? Frank Peters