Running eix-sync often I get the situation where a package is shown as requiring update but the emerge -uDa world command tells me that nothing needs update. Maybe this is my error, but in this case the messages are a bit misleading. Look at this: ================== [U] == sci-visualization/gnuplot (4.2.6@02/12/2009; 4.2.6!t -> (~)4.2.6-r1!t): Command-line driven interactive plotting program [*N] >> app-shells/prll ((~)0.4): A utility for parallelizing execution in bash or zsh * Time statistics: 65 seconds for syncing 1 seconds for eix-update 1 seconds for eix-diff 67 seconds total calvin ~ # emerge -uDa world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. ==================== Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. run eix-sync 2. run emerge -uDa world 3. calvin ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc63 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8400_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:30:04 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p2 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ " LANG="it_IT.utf8" LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 ares asf ati audio audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bl bluetooth branding bri bzip2 cairo cdda cdparanoia cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dba dbus device-mapper dga directfb divx divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds emboss encode ethereal evo exif expat faad fam fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp garmin gd gdbm gif gimp gmedia gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gsm gstreamer gtk h264 h323 hal iconv icq idn ifp ilbc imagemagick imap innodb ipod ipv6 ithreads jabber jack java javascript joystick jpeg kde kontact kvm lastfm lcms ldap libcaca libnotify live lm_sensors lua lzo mad maildir mbox mdnsresponder-compat mhash mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mtp mudflap mysql ncurses nepomuk network new-hpcups nfsv4 njb nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl phonon php plasma plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc ruby samba sasl sdl semantic-desktop session sha512 sip slang slp sndfile snmp sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcltk tcpd theora threads thunar tiff tk tremor truetype udev unicode usb utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts video videos vim-syntax vorbis wav webkit wifi win32codecs wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xface xft xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib zpm" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeonhd radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
`emerge --with-bdeps y -uDa world` any different? Plus, emerge --depclean -a :)
Ok, with emerge --with-bdeps y -uDa world gnuplot is not shown; it appears as a package that will be removed by a depclean. (i.e. is not in portage) Basically this is related only to eix showing all packages that needs update and emerge upgrading only world (that is correct, only misleading in my case). Thanks for clarification.
(In reply to comment #2) > Basically this is related only to eix showing all packages that needs update Maybe this is a misinterpretation of the output: U in eix/diff-eix should not be read as "need update" but as "can be updated" (in the sense that a newer ebuild version is available and could be installed without needing any further unmask actions concerning that ebuild). eix does not (and never will) consider dependencies like a package manager: It is a tool for showing packages (and some of their states like stability), not a package manager replacement.
Nothing to fix here. Closing.
