On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote > Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, > which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge > -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It > never acted like this before. It's only been within the past few weeks. On > an older Gentoo server (which I don't upgrade nearly as often as my notebook > above) it doesn't exhibit this behaviour.
I've got ELOG enabled, so let's cd to that directory... cd /var/log/portage/elog/ Now let's see what messages we have from portage... $ ls -1 | grep sys-apps:portage sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log OK, file "sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log" looks interesting; wonder what it says... ========================================================================== $ cat sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log LOG: postinst See NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES for further changes. For help with using portage please consult the Gentoo Handbook at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3 WARN: postinst In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in IUSE. Immediately after upgrade from 2.1, users may notice a significantly larger number of packages pulled in by --newuse, but that behavior is normal. For additional information regarding this change, please see bugs #116955, #144333, #144661, and #146060. ========================================================================== That pretty well sums it up. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
