[gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

Hi group,

Following emerge --sync I was informed a new update
was available and directed to a file 

/usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006

which contains the following:

move net-wireless/madwifi-tools
net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools
move net-wireless/madwifi-driver
net-wireless/madwifi-ng
move games-simulation/bcsdemo
games-simulation/bcs-demo
move media-libs/alut media-libs/freealut
move games-strategy/dominions2-demo-bin
games-strategy/dominions2-demo
move dev-libs/pam_pkcs11 sys-auth/pam_pkcs11
move app-cdr/kio_burn app-cdr/konqburn
slotmove =media-libs/libdc1394-1* 0 1
slotmove =media-libs/libdc1394-2* 0 2
move dev-embedded/sdcc-cvs dev-embedded/sdcc-svn
move app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools
move dev-lisp/mit-scheme dev-scheme/mit-scheme
move dev-lisp/mzscheme dev-scheme/mzscheme
move dev-lisp/guile-pg dev-scheme/guile-pg
move dev-lisp/kawa dev-scheme/kawa
move www-apps/nut sys-power/nut
move media-tv/v4l-dvb-cvs media-tv/v4l-dvb-hg
move sys-apps/pmtools sys-power/pmtools
move app-crypt/gpg-agent app-crypt/gnupg
move app-mobilephone/obexfs sys-fs/obexfs
move app-i18n/scim-chinese app-i18n/scim-pinyin
move games-fps/avp-cvs games-fps/avp
move net-libs/nfsidmap net-libs/libnfsidmap
move net-misc/resolvconf-gentoo
net-dns/resolvconf-gentoo
move x11-misc/matchbox-nest x11-misc/xoo
move games-puzzle/pouetchess games-board/pouetchess
move app-i18n/jless-iso254 app-i18n/jless
move app-text/ghostscript-afpl
app-text/ghostscript-gpl
move sci-misc/camfr sci-physics/camfr
move sci-misc/lightspeed sci-physics/lightspeed
move sci-misc/mpb sci-physics/mpb
move sci-misc/xfoil sci-physics/xfoil
move sci-chemistry/abinit sci-physics/abinit
move sci-libs/root sci-physics/root

And this is what emerge -pvu portage says:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.17 [1.2.12] 227
kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1 [5.8.7]
-berkdb +debug +gdbm -ithreads 9,886 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 [5.8.7-r3]
-berkdb -build +debug -doc +gdbm -ithreads -perlsuid 0
kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7j [0.9.7i]
-bindist -emacs -test +zlib 3,213 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56  -minimal
63 kB 
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.04 [1.01] 5
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/PodParser-1.32  -minimal 91
kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 [5.4-r6]
-bootstrap -build +debug* -doc +gpm -minimal -nocxx
-unicode 2,259 kB 
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r1 [2.4.2] +X
-berkdb* -bootstrap -build -doc +gdbm +ipv6 +ncurses
-nocxx +readline +ssl -tcltk -ucs2 7,827 kB 
[ebuild     U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.13 [0.1.11-r1]
-caps 52 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5  -bindist
-gmp -test 150 kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1-r1 [2.0.54-r1]
-build -doc (-elibc_FreeBSD) +elibc_glibc
-elibc_uclibc -linguas_pl (-selinux) -userland_Darwin
+userland_GNU 282 kB 

Total size of downloads: 24,059 kB

Now I'm too confused to even know what to ask about
it:(  Are those "moves" above another word for
"update"? Is 2Q-2006 supposed to have anything to do
with emerge -u portage? It doesn't look like it. But
then what is it for?

-Maxim

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