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 4.50) id 1ETyvZ-0000NH-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:47:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9O9XZjf029490; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:33:35 GMT Received: from priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (outbound05.telus.net [199.185.220.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9O8kWtW030309 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:46:32 GMT Received: from zebedee ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20051024012448.UVNF10926.priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net@zebedee> for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:24:48 -0600 From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200510221307.17624.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <435AA2FE.3090807@saunalahti.fi> In-Reply-To: <435AA2FE.3090807@saunalahti.fi> 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 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:28:08 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510231828.10884.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: d35acd89-913d-48ac-b45a-9ae170e6b6a5 X-Archives-Hash: 8e802415664260f4ee766a0b39de1c4a [This is the third time sending this post because it doesn't seem to be showing up on the list. Sorry if it ends up being a duplicate (or a triplicate).] Thank you everyone! I have now discovered that my problem was that I still had some monolithic kde packages hanging around alongside the metapackages (e.g. kdeedu instead of kdeedu-meta). I think I'd been unmerging them one at a time and didn't get around to finishing the job. Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems to be catching the kde updates the way it should. -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list