Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages

[gottlieb@nyu.edu]

On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On 23/07/2014 15:24, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>> My normal updating procedure is
>> 
>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5"
>> emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going  @world
>> 
>> I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the
>> latest version (subject to package.accept_keywords, package.mask, ...).
>> 
>> I now realize that it only does this for the packages in world and then
>> follows the dependency tree.  So if package A in world is up to date, A
>> depends of B, and a new version of B appears, B will not be updated.
>> 
>> As a result eix-test-obsolete finds that I have packages installed that
>> are no longer in the database.
>> 
>> I could do 
>> 
>> emerge --update the-2-dozen-such-packages
>
> emerge --depclean

I had done that and nothing turned up.
allan