Philip Webb schrieb am 22.03.2009 07:58: > I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world', > then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually. > I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps, > which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items. > I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard: > repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its shortcomings > (was it copied from Free BSD when Gentoo was originally created ? ). > >> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense. >> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: >> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) > > My hand-made list of pkgs tells me that I removed Mktemp 080419 > & that it had been required for Debianutils, > of which my current version is 2.28.5 installed 090314 . > Others had problems with this block, perhaps 1 year ago, > so if you really are that far behind in updating, > you should search the list archive to see what the advice was back then: > IIRC a new version of Debianutils incorporated the Mktemp stuff, > so they became incompatible. >
You know that such a list already exists. It is /var/log/emerge.log. To
get useful information out of it app-portage/genlop comes handy.
genlop -u mktemp
* sys-apps/mktemp
Sat Mar 3 18:14:30 2007 >>> sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
Tue Dec 18 01:37:31 2007 >>> sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
Sat Apr 12 23:15:42 2008 <<< sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
Regards,
Daniel
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