On Saturday 14 June 2008, Peter Wood wrote: > Hi, > I just ran eix-sync and it informs me that there are updates > available for 2 packages (Archiv-Tar and Archive-Zip). Both packages > are pulled in by othe packages that are either in world or system. > The current versions are not locked anywhere, nor are the new ones > masked as far as I can tell. Still, > emerge --update --deep world > and > emerge --update --deep system > tell me that there are no updates to install. > I did emerge --metadata and emerge --regen, but the result is the > same. Does anybody have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Does emerge --with-bdeps y -uDNav world Do it for you? The problem comes from Portage not updating build-dependencies until a package is rebuilt. --with-bdeps y makes portage consider both build and runtime-dependencies. -- /PA
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