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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyI8M-0003cU-0Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:54:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k660pNp4004627; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:51:23 GMT Received: from web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k660c5ns010476 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 00:38:05 GMT Received: (qmail 31511 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jul 2006 00:38:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=cgE9R7Z7mJZRhkT1o224aYVrAaZd2ZC37k29rarHRA39BUbbZCsSdmdMZwy05kBTaPPr/dZhuI86O+qcNHedHXK37tXnIwoFP+vd3FnhLuoTABJ3q19UUR+j3aaw5gqenxDXkL2Bb5yDANpCjraJILLoNoxd51F0zGCVRHr2IRw= ; Message-ID: <20060706003804.31506.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.146] by web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:38:04 PDT Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:38:04 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 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-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ca673625-ed33-468d-ac7b-a5da7dcd27b4 X-Archives-Hash: 7543f6479417cc333d56221bb2144982 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list