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 ) id 1NKIxy-0001jX-QU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:00:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6FF8E0AFB for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD85E0BA3 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id H51A1d0020EPchoA18M8zZ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:08 +0000 Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org ([66.41.30.59]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id H8MJ1d00F1GXozm8M8MKbZ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:20 +0000 Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBEKLF6x006692 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:21:16 -0600 Received: (from trashman@localhost) by crud.chemoelectric.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBEKLEAG006691 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:21:14 -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:21:14 -0600 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Portage Fails To Find Updates Message-ID: <20091214202113.GA6633@crud.chemoelectric.org> References: <20091214124309.fb40ca6e.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20091214130132.193d6c98.frank.peters@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091214130132.193d6c98.frank.peters@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 1fbd0596-c590-47bd-bb40-9ff588f01d20 X-Archives-Hash: eff0eab3ed0aaeb3ee17ef5653782f13 Frank Peters 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.