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 1RhUWA-0006Kq-A0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:08:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A81D21C118; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0930721C21A for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghrr19 with SMTP id r19so5945228ghr.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:06:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JsQo3oPqhEeRmE4AGOeB3JmPRp0PiX39Egfg8nls9XA=; b=x+mxJ/kaTVSwWIAob4GbKx7jIfWqrvSBOtdIf7MJCBxYxjTs4XdZZHCYbN2PxbNM0m Noes5/9HcDISaF+MBqy17Jgxe3+cauW4XnOeqFWRqbpPStbL83oi7DmgSMWLXxP2TfyI CcUbxuId5v9QWSDM4Lko/K1XsdHEoMFwRQvAM= Received: by 10.236.93.4 with SMTP id k4mr59395537yhf.114.1325459176581; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:06:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-65-42.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.65.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm28595471ank.7.2012.01.01.15.06.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:06:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F00E6E3.5080503@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:06:11 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior References: <4F00D521.1030702@orlitzky.com> <4F00DA99.8050502@orlitzky.com> <4F00DEC5.5090500@gmail.com> <4F00E2E7.40609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b3e1022d-628a-4d89-9e35-52e65ef75f5c X-Archives-Hash: c0dd6ef994c2fe1f615f041293fd07b1 Claudio Roberto Fran=C3=A7a Pereira wrote: > Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not > updatable (are already the most recent version). > It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions. > > Not according to the man page: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may=20 not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and=20 develop=E2=80=90 ment. Package atoms specified on the command line are=20 greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple versions of=20 slotted pack=E2=80=90 ages. It is a command line, or make.conf, option but it tells emerge what to=20 do. It's no different than -D or -N. They are all options but they=20 tell portage what you want it to do. Update means update. That's why=20 it is called update instead of something else. Dale :-) :-) --=20 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or = how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--quiet-build=3Dn"