Hi, I recognized this some time ago!
When my system is up to date "emerge -pvuND world" shows me: > emerge -pvuND world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB Which is normal because an up to date system doesn't have to download anything. But when i add the emptytree option "emerge -pveuND world" i get this (output reduced): > emerge -pveuND world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > ... > Calculating world dependencies ..... ....... done! > [ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils [2.16.1-r3] USE="nls > -multislot -multitarget -test -vanilla" 109 kB > ... > [ebuild N ] net-dialup/ppp [2.4.3-r16] USE="gtk ipv6 > pam -activefilter -atm -dhcp -eap-tls -mppe-mppc -radius" 55 kB > ... > > Total size of downloads: 164 kB So why are there appearing some apps now for which portage has to download something? Using eix on sys-devel/binutils and net-dialup/ppp tells me that i have exactly those ebuilds listed above installed. I think that there have been made changes to this ebuild without increasing the version number. For example binutils from 2.16.1-r3 to 2.16.1-r4. So portage doesn't upgrade this package although there have been changes. Or is there a portage option i don't know until now which i have to use for getting this apps updated. Am i guessing right in any of this cases or is this another problem with portage? Thanks in advance, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
