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jingai
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:25 pm    Post subject: emerge update not working? Reply with quote

when i try to emerge update system/world, it never updates anything, even though newer versions are available. i sat at portage 1.9.2 for a while before i realized it wasn't working. all i get is:

Code:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies  ...done!


any ideas?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

emerge rsync
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Target wrote:
emerge rsync


Yup, that is very important.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The actual problem is rather that update is not an action, but an option, thus emerge --update world/system should do the job. Of course you should also emerge rsync first :)

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rachaef wrote:
The actual problem is rather that update is not an action, but an option, thus emerge --update world/system should do the job. Of course you should also emerge rsync first :)


Ah, that's what I'm looking for. And yes, I did do an emerge rsync. Several times in fact :)

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem :)
Actually the fact, that an emerge update world doesn't exit with an error message can be considered a bug. You can do an emerge <anything> world and it doesn't exit with an error message, even in the newest Portage 1.9.5. Maybe you should file a bug report.

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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2002 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rachaef wrote:
No problem :)
Actually the fact, that an emerge update world doesn't exit with an error message can be considered a bug. You can do an emerge <anything> world and it doesn't exit with an error message, even in the newest Portage 1.9.5. Maybe you should file a bug report.


I think I will. It's not altogether intuitive, without at least a message saying "are you sure you didn't want to do..."

Also, the man page for emerge makes no mention of the --update argument, which is why I incorrectly assumed --update == update.
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