From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AD813877A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B47D6E1B39; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu (MX2.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A08BFE1B21 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6PEhlGs026524 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:43:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-182de8a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.232.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6PEhlOI026521 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:43:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6417FA0153; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:43:47 -0400 (EDT) From: gottlieb@nyu.edu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updating ALL packages References: <874my82oo3.fsf@nyu.edu> <53D1D7E7.6080907@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:43:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <53D1D7E7.6080907@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:07:03 +0200") Message-ID: <87d2ctjy70.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:43:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-Archives-Salt: c612caf9-4ff2-4b5f-97f2-060a477b37ef X-Archives-Hash: 02905ded87f9af158a9c8f8bdf8fba93 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