2006/10/11, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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?
Maybe is that only minor changes like build-fix patches...
For example, let's say you've a x86 system and a package foobar-1.0
compiles just fine on your system but not on amd64.
If developper provides a patch to make foobar-1.0 compile fine on
amd64 he might not change the ebuild version number because the bug
was "blocking" the update and the amd64 users *will* notice the
changes. And the x86 won't have to recompile the soft just in order to
apply an *unneeded* patch... (IMHO)
regards,
Boris.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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