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 1QLs3E-0001Gx-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:17:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCEF91C011; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0211C011 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so4324793wyi.40 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 00:15:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=kOpUGunwSy2WzjJBmjS710j25TXAGB25Odwv+bEGRAw=; b=ERGegbEZNozz6J/KEAF1vJAsTHXimHR7iEB++rTDGW0kzK/EMoOi9VNzBstfnvqem1 V11T2WHHsBfofBaCp8I1+OYylh4FwcLghF+/lGM0UHdRM4vJmp7RNVoLWyGNjIXvFOuQ Rk2nBgLeBMW5do0pviVG729CCrrEJeTT7iPU8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=XPy3wYbW35h2zcVyCZLpVByIrZqTEAJRlvsWvR14Cqc5Jqs7wXw7nYMloH670u+7RY iNL9jNHZw9RZGnC+dNdegCs7feWmYGYlTAWgMK3BSuljuqBGBwfhCU71fiLxTU4X7QpV PgXMB9SZ/J/drh1zXDT/YBcIuLpeH9KpzTHE0= Received: by 10.216.255.73 with SMTP id i51mr1897536wes.88.1305530135791; Mon, 16 May 2011 00:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c43sm2396118weo.18.2011.05.16.00.15.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 16 May 2011 00:15:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:14:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105160914.43224.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6fbcea771398e5c304c2ee3b5562017c Apparently, though unproven, at 08:35 on Monday 16 May 2011, Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: > Hello list! > > I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following > points: > > * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in > @world Yes > * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly > (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world (emerge > --update --deep @world) Yes > * --update-ing a package will not record it in @world Dunno. Please test it and tell us if it did or not > * If I want that package to be included in @world, I have to re-emerge it No. emerge -n Refer to emerge man page You can also just edit /var/lib/portage/world by hand for the same result -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com