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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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-15 22:39 UTC|newest]

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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