maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > At tail of emerge --sync its says now emerge portage. > > So, emerge portage results in one package being > installed, portage, 61kb. > > emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus > portage, 18Mb.
Can you tell us the list of packages it reported? (downgrade and run emerge -u again). > Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring > later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it. > > But this is what happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv portage > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9 USE="-build > -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 > kB > > What I expected. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -puv portage > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! That happened to me too with a different package and I thought the same you did. >From the man page: "Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. Package atoms specified on the command line are greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple installed versions of slotted packages." > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB > > So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now? > > Maxim Ivan Perez. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
