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From: "Petteri Räty" <petteri.raty@saunalahti.fi>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:37:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435AA2FE.3090807@saunalahti.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510221307.17624.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk>

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Robert Persson wrote:
> I emerged kde 3.4 using the metapackages (kdebase-meta, kdeaddons-meta etc.).  
> However I now find that emerge -u world fails to update any of the component 
> packages to their latest versions, which should all be 3.4.1(-r2/r3/etc).  I 
> end up emerging newer versions individually (e.g. "emerge kopete") when I 
> think I have a bug problem, which is obviously a clumsy way to do things.
> 
> I know I can "emerge kdebase-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeblahblahblah" to get 
> things up to date, but is there a way to get portage to actually deal with 
> kde nicely like it used to?
> 
> Many thanks
> Robert

Use the --deep option. emerge -uD world. see man emerge for more
information.

Regards,
Petteri

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-22 20:07 [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages Robert Persson
2005-10-22 20:23 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-10-22 20:32 ` Thomas Matthijs
2005-10-22 20:37 ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2005-10-23  5:01   ` Robert Persson
2005-10-23 10:22   ` Robert Persson
2005-10-24  1:28   ` Robert Persson

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