From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuLpC-0000ao-IT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:57:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6I2uBL2008155; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:56:11 GMT Received: from pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6I2qUMM015633 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:52:34 GMT Received: from nc-67-76-104-173.dyn.sprint-hsd.net ([67.76.104.173]) by pop-tawny.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1DuLkn-00075g-00 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:53:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world? From: Jeff Cranmer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b050717090916151744@mail.gmail.com> References: <200502081145.49841.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <1107908917.10717.8.camel@tux> <1107911081.10717.32.camel@tux> <1121614789.11397.33.camel@tux> <5bdc1c8b050717090916151744@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:49:18 +0000 Message-Id: <1121654958.11397.47.camel@tux> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 292ef017-5882-4ab9-b245-413024542eda X-Archives-Hash: 16bf892558715f90cabc9473035e73aa The emerge --deep command did throw up a few others. [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r4 [1.8-r2] [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9b [1.0.8] [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9b [1.0.8] [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9 [1.0.8] [ebuild U ] media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r4 [0.7.4] [ebuild R ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8 [ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.34 [ebuild U ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9 [5b-r8] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.03 [1.01-r1] [ebuild R ] media-libs/netpbm-10.20 [ebuild R ] media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b [ebuild U ] media-plugins/live-2005.01.29 [2004.07.20] [ebuild R ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3 [ebuild U ] net-misc/curl-7.13.2 [7.13.1] [ebuild U ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r9 [0.00-r8] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r4 [2.1.11-r3] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25 [1.23] [ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.5 [ebuild R ] media-sound/vorbis-tools-1.0.1 My world file looks a little sparse: app-cdr/cdrtools media-libs/libexif www-client/opera x11-base/xorg-x11 media-video/mplayer media-video/transcode media-sound/xmms app-cdr/k3b net-p2p/gtk-gnutella media-libs/libsdl media-video/vcdimager media-gfx/imagemagick dev-libs/libcdio media-sound/sox kde-base/kde net-p2p/gift-gnutella kde-base/kdelibs www-client/mozilla-firefox app-text/acroread media-video/avifile The world file on my 2.6 system has a lot more in it, though I'm not sure that simply copying over the world file would be the right thing to do. Any suggestions about how to recover my original world file? Thanks Jeff On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > what happens with the command > > emerge --deep --update --newuse world > > and what's in your world file? (/var/lib/portage/world) > > Cheers, > Mark > > On 7/17/05, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use > > Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 > > > > I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I > > perform an emerge -up world, I do not see any packages requiring update. > > When I start checking individual packages, however, I find a lot of > > out-of-date software. > > > > Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why my 'world' portage group appears > > to be empty? > > > > The 2.6 install still works correctly and is up to date. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jeff > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list