> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:54 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> > emerge -eav world
> >
> > The corresponding system emerge finished okay. At the beginning of
the
> > output of the aforementioned command I get.
> >
> > Calculating world dependencies \
> > !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> > !!! masked or don't exist:
> > media-video/nvidia-glx media-video/nvidia-kernel app-shells/csh
> > x11-misc/gtkdiff sci-libs/lapack
> >
> > I can't find sci-libs/lapack (emerge --search lapack). Could someone
> > tell me how is portage looking for it? I think I had it installed
> > before
> > the upgrade. None of the nvidia stuff is currently installed but
were
> > installed before the system emerge. I can't find gtkdiff but csh is
> > indeed masked:
> 
> Put simply, your current system is old, but it appears you've updated
> your portage tree.  

Indeed system has been upgraded with gcc 4.1; it was a bit tricky.

> Portage is telling you that you have these packages
> installed but it can't find them in the portage tree. For example,
> nvidia-glx has long been replaced by nvidia-drivers.
> 
> In the Gentoo world, you stand to suffer a bit if you wait a long time
> between updates.  If you truly intend to keep your system "old", I
would

Yup.

> recommend you make a snapshot of the portage tree as well as your
> DISTDIR as those files may no longer be available as well.
> 
> But if you truly want to do an "upgrade", would it not be better to do
a
> "emerge -Duva" world as opposed to "emerge -eva".  "-eva" isn't
> upgrading anything, it's just re-building what you already have, but
> since many things you have currently no longer exist in portage, it's
> likely better to -u instead of -e.

Agreed. I used -e in the last upgrade step of system to rebuild it with
gcc 4.1 and ended up using for world.


> p.s.
> Seems like a few people are just now "upgrading" to 2006.1 when 2007.0
> is soon to be released... why are you a year behind?

There was something weird about 2006; it went by too fast....:)

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