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From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Portage Fails To Find Updates
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:21:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091214202113.GA6633@crud.chemoelectric.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091214130132.193d6c98.frank.peters@comcast.net>

Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> skribis:
> However, this practice seems to be a bad idea.  Since the time that I
> installed urw-fonts, the package rpm2targz has been updated but I will
> never know this unless urw-fonts also becomes updated.  A similar situation
> could exist for many other packages.  Portage should by default enter all
> packages into the "world" file.

Update with "emerge -NuDv world", then run "revdep-rebuild -pv" to
look for more potential updates, then run "emerge --depclean -pv" to
look for packages you no longer need due to dependencies. Use "emerge
-n" if you want to keep any of those packages; that will put them in
the world file.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-14 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-14 17:43 [gentoo-amd64] Portage Fails To Find Updates Frank Peters
2009-12-14 18:01 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Frank Peters
2009-12-14 20:21   ` Barry Schwartz [this message]
2009-12-14 18:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-12-14 19:39 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Morgan Wesström

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