Re: [gentoo-user] How can I update *every* ebuild?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:48:03 +0100
Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gentoo-users,
> I always thought the right way to update everything was:
> 
> emerge --update --deep --newuse world
> emerge --update --deep --newuse system
> 
> When I try the above mentioned, nothing to update is found.
> Yet when I try i.e. "emerge --pretend nasm", I see:
> 
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-lang/nasm-2.10.05 [2.10.01]
> 
> So there is apparently update for dev-lang/nasm, yet it was
> not pulled when I tried to update the "world" or "system".
> And who knows for how many other ebuilds there is update
> available...
> 
> So how can I update really *every* ebuild?


What are your bdep settings in make.conf? (see man emerge for more info
on bdeps)

nasm is unlikely to be a run-time depend for anything, considering
what it does it's more likely to be a build depend. If nothing in world
that uses nasm to build itslef is to be built, then nasm won't be
upgraded; it will be left as-is until it really does need to be
rebuilt. 

You should learn to trust portage, it knows more about your system than
you do. "really update every package" sounds a lot more like pedantic
OCD insistence that it all be done always rather than a sensible
decision :-)  And before anyone rips me a new one for being
unbelievably rude to list users again, I have the same issue myself. So
I got really good at spotting it and recognizing why it is not really a
good thing.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com