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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be an update or not to be an update...
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 18:08:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909160807.GC12070@bifrost.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130909160126.GA3403@solfire>

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On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:01:26PM +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I submitted this command:
> eix-sync ; emerge --color=n --newuse --update --tree --deep world --keep-going -va
>
> and got (beside a lot other lines) this as result:
>
>     Writing database file /var/cache/eix/portage.eix ..
>     Database contains 16797 packages in 159 categories.
>     * Calling eix-diff
>     Diffing databases (16797 -> 16797 packages)
>     [>]   == dev-python/m2crypto (0.21.1 -> 0.21.1-r1^t): M2Crypto: A Python crypto and SSL toolkit
>     [U]   == virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest (1.610.0@08/04/13; 1.610.0 -> 1.630.0): Virtual for ExtUtils-Manifest
>     * Time statistics:
>     191 seconds for syncing
>     126 seconds for eix-update
>         15 seconds for eix-diff
>     335 seconds total
>
>     These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
>     Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>     Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
>     Nothing to merge; quitting.
>
>
>     beagleboneblack:/root>eix virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest
>     [U] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest
>         Available versions:  ~1.580.0-r1 ~1.590.0 1.600.0 1.610.0 1.630.0
>         Installed versions:  1.610.0(06:25:46 08/04/13)
>         Description:         Virtual for ExtUtils-Manifest
>
> I am a little confused here...
> Why is virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest marked "U" and the result is "Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB"....?

My guess would be that it's just a build time dependency (BDEP) for something.
Try to add --with-bdeps=y to your emerge commandline (most likely there will be
some other packages pulled in too).
These packages don't need to be updated unless the package depending on it
need to be rebuild.

WKR
Hinnerk

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2013-09-09 16:01 [gentoo-user] To be an update or not to be an update meino.cramer
2013-09-09 16:08 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen [this message]

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