[gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

[gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

[maxim wexler]

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.

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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Re: [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

[Christoph Daldrup]

Am 08/15/2005 09:42 PM maxim wexler wrote:

> 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.

An "emerge portage" should be fine.

Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

[Fernando Meira]

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If you have run "emerge world", portage would be automatically updated 
together with other packages.

Fernando

On 8/15/05, Christoph Daldrup <cd-news@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Am 08/15/2005 09:42 PM maxim wexler wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> An "emerge portage" should be fine.
> 
> Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

[Nick Rout]

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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