Bug 405783

Summary:	emerge man page inadequate for -n option
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Peter Fox <gentoo>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	472632
Attachments:	[PATCH] Fixes the bug

Description Peter Fox 2012-02-25 16:07:44 UTC

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

Comment 1 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-30 21:04:28 UTC

Created attachment 354664 [details, diff]
[PATCH] Fixes the bug

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-07-30 23:04:55 UTC

(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

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-08-03 10:20:24 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.13.3 and 2.2.0_alpha192.