[gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

[gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

[Jeff Cranmer]

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out-of-date software.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


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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

[Mark Knecht]

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 <jcranmer01@earthlink.net> 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 out-of-date software.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
> 
> 
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> 
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

[Jeff Cranmer]

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 <jcranmer01@earthlink.net> 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
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> >
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:49:18 +0000, Jeff Cranmer wrote:

> Any suggestions about how to recover my original world file?

emerge -p depclean

Check the output for any programs you need (just the programs, not their
dependencies)

emerge -n program1 program2...

rinse and repeat


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"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult" -C.A.R. Hoare

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