From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:34:27 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050816103320.CBB7.NICK@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815194207.18586.qmail@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> At the end of a successful emerge --sync I was advised
> to "update portage". It didn't say but I assumed it
> meant "emerge update portage", which is what I did --
> so far so good. But the manual only gives update
> system or world, no portage.
you can emerge update anything, eg
emerge update kde-multimedia
emerge update portage is just an example of updating a particular
package instead of your whole world.
>
> Is emerge update portage the same thing as emerge
> update system? The stuff it's updating seem like
> "system" stuff: gcc, binutils, glib etc.
>
> -mw
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-15 19:42 [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system maxim wexler
2005-08-15 19:53 ` Christoph Daldrup
2005-08-15 20:02 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-15 22:34 ` Nick Rout [this message]
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