Hi,
1. emerge -p world is basic emerge, it checks only packages written to
world file.
2. emerge -puD world is better then emerge -p as it does deep scan.
--update (-u)
Updates packages to the best version available, which
may not
always be the highest version number due to masking for
testing
and development. This will also update direct
dependencies
which may not be what you want. In general, use this
option
only in combination with the world or system target.
--deep (-D)
When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces
emerge
to consider the entire dependency tree of packages,
instead of
checking only the immediate dependencies of the packages.
As an
example, this catches updates in libraries that are not
directly
listed in the dependencies of a package."
3. emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc` is my version of -uD which I checks for
all installed packed including those are missed by -uD.
Thanks
YS
Ben Munat wrote:
> Yogesh Sharma wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually do :
>>
>> emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`
>>
>> once verified I do:
>>
>> emerge -n `qpkg -I -nc`
>>
>> or emerge individual package from -p output.
>
>
> This is pretty cool... thanks.
>
> One interesting thing though: currently on my home machine, doing:
>
> emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`
>
> or
>
> emerge -p world
>
> or
>
> emerge -puD world
>
> brings up three different orders for the list of packages to emerge.
> The "-p world" has fewer packages, but the other two have the same
> number but in different orders. I suppose that might just mean that
> order's not really significant in this case.
>
> b
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