On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:21:02 b.n. wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded Portage (and a couple of other unrelated packages). > After the upgrade, I noticed that "emerge -pv world" before and after > give two very different results. In particular: > > 1) I had a lot of sound-related packages that are no more in portage > still installed. Okay, I should get rid of them. > BEFORE: emerge -pv warned me of all these packages. > AFTER: emerge -pv warns me of only one package (djplay)
Due to bug #48195 [1] being fixed. Installed packages can now satisfy a dependency even if it isn't in the tree or in an overlay that's present. > 2) I still have to upgrade dbus to 1.0.2 > BEFORE: the dbus upgrade was in the -pv output > AFTER: It seems the dbus upgrade is no more in emerge -pv world. This seems weird. What's the output of `emerge -pv dbus` with portage 2.1.2? > 3) I am currently running GCC 4.1.x, but I am keeping gcc 3.3 and 3.4 > installed (I could probably get rid of gcc 3.3.x, but whatever...) > BEFORE: no gcc upgrade was required > AFTER: Portage wants me to upgrade gcc 3.3.6 and 3.4.6 to their minor > upgrades. Due to bug #4698 [2] and some of the referenced bugs on that being fixed. Portage 2.1.1 only upgraded the latest installed slot of any slotted package. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/48195 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/4698 -- Bo Andresen
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