I've been using Gentoo since one of the 2003 releases, and never understood this behavior and was wondering if someone could enlighten me:
Currently on a 2005.0 install: # emerge --sync;emerge -puvN world ( spits out the usual sync output, and ends with this: ) These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB So I think to myself, "Self, there's nothing to update." But I saw a security update yesterday for 'gaim' which I *have* installed, so for kicks, I do the following: # emerge -puvN gaim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-libs/libsoup-2.2.3 [2.2.2] -debug -doc +ipv6 +ssl 349 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.2 [2.12.1] -debug -doc +ssl 662 kB [ebuild U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.16 [0.14-r2] 735 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/atk-1.9.1 [1.8.0-r1] -debug -doc -static 472 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.7 [2.6.4-r1] -debug -doc +jpeg -static +tiff 11,174 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.0 [2.8.1-r1] -debug -doc 1,693 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.0-r2 [2.8.4-r1] -debug -doc -gnutls -hal -howl +ipv6 +samba +ssl 1,856 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.10.0 [2.8.1] -debug -doc 850 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.1-r1 [1.0.4] -debug -doc +ipv6 -kerberos -ldap +mozilla -nntp +ssl 7,279 kB [ebuild N ] app-text/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 -doc 192 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.4 [0.14.1-r1] -debug -doc -emacs +nls 6,869 kB [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.3.1 [1.3.0] -cjk -debug +eds -gnutls -krb4 +nas +nls +perl -silc +spell* +tcltk 5,725 kB Total size of downloads: 37,862 kB ... why wouldn't "emerge -puvN world" pick up on all of these available upgrades? -- Ian Douglas http://www.w98.us/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
