It's likely that gnome-base/gdm isn't in your world file. An easy way to check this is:
grep gnome-base/gdm /var/lib/portage/world It's more than likely a dependancy of some other gnome project that hasn't upgraded its requirements to gdm. A way to upgrade dependancies is to add --deep or just -D to your emerge world, e.g. emerge -Duva world One other useful flag you may have missed is also --newuse or -N, which rechecks use flags on all packages, just in case you've tweaked your flags recently. On 6/9/05, reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As shown below, why wouldn't "emerge -u world" pick up the update available > for gdm? > > Actually, I think it is probably because it is not listed in > /var/lib/portage/world so I guess I am actually wondering why it wouldn't be > listed there? > > Obviously my system knows gdm is installed but how does it know this? I guess > I was always under the impression that everything I installed would be placed > in /var/lib/portage/world. Obviously not. I know I can edit that file and add > gdm dut that doesn't really answer my question. > > I am sure this is a minor issue that I just can't find in the man pages but I > am trying to 1) learn something that I am obviously missing 2) determine if > there are any other updates that "emerge -Du world" might be missing. > > Thanks in advance. > > Reg > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -ua world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] no > > Quitting. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -ua gdm > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.9.5 [2.8.1-r1] > [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.9-r3 [2.6.0.6] > > Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no > > Quitting. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
