[gentoo-dev] FW: [gentoo-user] emerge update --world - solution

["Carnevale, Jason" <jcarnevale@gnilink.net>]

From: Carnevale, Jason [mailto:jcarnevale@gnilink.net] 
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:07 PM
To: 'gentoo-user@gentoo.org'
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] emerge update --world - solution

I have portage 1.8.8 installed, since that shows up as the latest version
available with emerge I will assume that it is masked ( I will confirm
this).  I am able to do a world update using " emerge --world update" using
--pretend gives me a nice list of things that need updating. Since this is
an older portage the /var/cache/edb/world file is not there. I am trying to
find the file my version of protage is using to determine what is installed
in the system. I want to lock a few packages at the version they are at and
install the rest. How can I do this with 1.8.8, without going to 1.8.9,
problem with upgrading portage first is that it will not create a world file
based on what I have installed prior to going to 1.8.9.

Thanks,

Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Smith [mailto:ian.c.smith@btinternet.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:37 PM
To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update --world - solution

Thilo Bangert wrote:
>> 
> no - but portage 1.8.9 uses a different (far supirior) method of 
> determing world updates...
> 
> when you install a package the package gets added to a file storing all 
> locally installed packages... emerge then goes through this list to 
> determine what packages should be updated, when doing emerge --update 
> world
> as you have not installed any packages using the new portage, the list 
> is empty an thus there is nothing to update
> 
> the correct method for my hack would be to write a converter script, 
> which builds the new world-update database from the already installed 
> packages... i'll have a look at that later today...


I did:
pkglist >/var/cache/edb/world
but still get nothing to upgrade.

BTW the portage guide is still inconsistent regarding whether world or 
update gets the '--' !!!!

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