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.
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20091214202113.GA6633@crud.chemoelectric.org \
--to=chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org \
--cc=gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox