[gentoo-user] Re: updating ALL packages

[gottlieb@nyu.edu]

On Wed, Jul 23 2014, 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.

This must be wrong since my procedure does sometimes offer to update
non-world packages

> 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
>
> Is that wise?

I would still want to know if the executing the last emerge command is
wise and also would like to understand what  my update world procedure
is actually doing.

> thanks,
> allan

PS  Sorry for the error.  New rule no email to gentoo-user before my
morning shower.