I keep forgetting, and the man page doesn't tell me, what the emerge option is to update the world file without rebuilding a package. Eventually I find my way to http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage which reminds me. The man page for emerge, and the --noreplace [-n] option should include a comment along the lines of 'This option can be used to update the world file without rebuilding a package.' Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 354664 [details, diff] [PATCH] Fixes the bug
(In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #1) > Created attachment 354664 [details, diff] [details, diff] > [PATCH] Fixes the bug Thanks, this is in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=76c02f707ac06913474a9d2b850b104ce8cad4e1
This is fixed in 2.1.13.3 and 2.2.0_alpha192.