From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyXfp-00039W-L7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:29:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66HRHZS018698; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:27:17 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66HEVIZ000482 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:14:31 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id e2so2169109ugf for ; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:14:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=XYx0Sr2AoN5kg+trD6kJIhKlP8EpEzRdLs8d+WGVdK2MFg+V+3nGR27lqjBjspg+N6XHJ6HkaKiL82NU9GMkYBn11b+1KRTsIpC8HhAYKhRgA2dovh8BhYdI5XSW1J6WpyotSMuh8GtxRh7yfWDKhTaqMQAL/Og1gwGYQqu2e2M= Received: by 10.78.151.15 with SMTP id y15mr289772hud; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.20.11 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607061014g733f9177tc447b2f2811c7af8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:14:30 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync In-Reply-To: <20060706003804.31506.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060706003804.31506.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ba4c4c946244150e X-Archives-Salt: c718ad7e-eb82-41f1-8fc6-5af84366ae1f X-Archives-Hash: 97bcd0a8bb2978c05f66acf42419c8ea On 7/5/06, maxim wexler wrote: > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 > > which contains the following: > > move net-wireless/madwifi-tools > net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools > move net-wireless/madwifi-driver > net-wireless/madwifi-ng These are instructions to portage to move things around for installed packages. For example, if someone had net-wireless/madwifi-tools installed, well that is now "net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools" in portage. So portage needs to update the installed package database in /var/pkg/db to reflect the new name, so the user continues to receive updates for it. See 5.f at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap6 > "update"? Is 2Q-2006 supposed to have anything to do > with emerge -u portage? It doesn't look like it. But > then what is it for? What you really should have seen was a message that said "Applying 2Q-2006 updates" or some such. Not a "go look at this file" message. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list