Hello Maxim On 15:46 Mon 16 Jul, maxim wexler wrote: > At tail of emerge --sync its says now emerge portage.
Yes, it does that every time there is a new portage version available.
> emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus
> portage, 18Mb.
from the emerge manpage:
"--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. Package
atoms
specified on the command line are greedy, meaning that unspecific
atoms may
match multiple installed versions of slotted packages."
> So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now?
If you look carefully at the first line 'emerge -pv portage' gives you,
you will notice that it says `[ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage'. The `R'
is for `Rebuild' - as your portage is already at the latest version
emerge wants to rebuild it. If you use the -u flag it just searches for
updates, finds none and hence does not suggest any installation.
I suggest you should read throgh emerge(1) and portage(5) mapages and
also read the online docs in the handbook to get familiar with the
portage system.
Regards,
Aleks
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