I do a daily 'emerge -avDuN world' to keep everything up to date, but
I've noticed it doesn't always find everything. As an example:
# emerge -avDuN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No]
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
# emerge -pv boost
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] dev-util/boost-build-1.34.1 [1.35.0-r1] USE="python
(-examples%)" 0 kB
[ebuild UD] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.35.0-r2] USE="-debug -doc
-icu -pyste% -tools (-expat%) (-mpi%)" 0 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 downgrades), Size of downloads: 0 kB
# equery depends boost
[ Searching for packages depending on boost... ]
net-im/twinkle-1.0.1-r1 (dev-libs/boost)
net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.14.1 (>=dev-libs/boost-1.34)
(>=dev-libs/boost-1.35)
Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'?
- Grant
