On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > I always thought the right way to update everything was: > > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > emerge --update --deep --newuse system > > When I try the above mentioned, nothing to update is found. > Yet when I try i.e. "emerge --pretend nasm", I see: > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.10.05 [2.10.01] > > So there is apparently update for dev-lang/nasm, yet it was > not pulled when I tried to update the "world" or "system". > And who knows for how many other ebuilds there is update > available... > > So how can I update really *every* ebuild?
Well, terminology issue first. An 'ebuild' is a file describing how the system handles a specific version of a particular package. So what you probably want to do is update every *package*. And in answer...you've got it right. (Though I would use @world and/or @system, rather than leaving off the @) Why nasm isn't getting updated might have something to do with your packages.mask file. -- :wq
