On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:07 pm, Kurt Guenther wrote:
# which autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf # autoconf --version Autoconf version 2.13
Strange, but I'll push onward. Thanks for the assist.
Kurt,
What Doug has installed on his box does not represent what's on yours.
$ qpkg -f /usr/bin/autoconf sys-devel/autoconf * $ grep autoconf /var/cache/edb/world $ grep autoconf /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/* /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages:*sys-devel/autoconf
I think that autoconf is specified in /usr/portage/profiles/ indicates that it is part of baselayout, and the lack of version information in that file (compare the line in /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages which says "*>=sys-devel/gcc-3.2") means that *some* version of autoconf is required for baslayout, but not any version in particular. I think that this means that autoconf won't be upgraded when you `emerge -u world` (because that only upgrades the packages listed in your "world" favorites file) but only when you `emerge -ud world` or maybe `emerge -ue world`.
On this ocassion, however you should be able to upgrade just autoconf by running:
# emerge sync && emerge --oneshot /usr/portage/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.57-r1.ebuild
HTH,
Stroller.
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