Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote:
> So, emerge portage results in one package being
> installed, portage, 61kb.
>
> emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus
> portage, 18Mb.
>
> Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring
> later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it.
>
> But this is what happens:
>
> heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -pv portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9  USE="-build
> -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0
> kB
>
> What I expected.
>
> heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -puv portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now?

Because --update stops calculating deps when none of the specified targets 
need updating. Only --deep checks the consistency of all dependencies even 
when none of the targets need updating. You could argue it's a deficiency in 
portage (although well-known)..

-- 
Bo Andresen

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