From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Ih9-0006Vs-02 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:01:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AACFE0AC9; Tue, 4 May 2010 14:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB46E0AC9 for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 14:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Hys-0005x6-8v for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:08 +0200 id 00011BC2.4BE01E18.000051A3 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:16:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-tuxonice; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005041516.08040.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2319ab83-6a64-4357-9c97-b5aa8379b8cd X-Archives-Hash: c96498786fb94333cc49a9709a58fda4 Helmut Jarausch writes: > My 'standard' way of updating is > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree > @system @world > > but it didn't update anything. > > Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have > newer versions, and indeed, > emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/) > upgraded 24 packages. > > Where does this discrepancy come from? I guess those packages are not in your /var/lib/portage/world file (or in a set in /var/lib/portage/world_sets), and nothing in there depends on them. Try emerge -p --depclean and see if they are listed. If so, use emerge -n to add them to world. Wonko