Summary: | emerge -upv world is leaving stuff out | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | ryanlamb82 |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
ryanlamb82
2005-03-18 22:21:15 UTC
Any possibility that /var/lib/portage is being deleted? Unless you use --oneshot, packages should be being added there. OK, I'm not using --oneshot. I went to /var/lib/portage and did a cat world and got the following: sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources x11-base/xorg-x11 app-text/acroread media-video/nvidia-glx www-client/mozilla-firefox media-video/nvidia-kernel I do have many many more packages on my system than just these so it would appear that you are right and they are getting deleted somehow. Do you have any idea how they are getting deleted? Is portage doing this or am I making some kind of an error that is deleting them? The file seems to only contain packages that I have installed/reinstalled in the last 2 or 3 weeks. Did portage get an upgrade around that time that might have wiped my world file? Isn't somewhat expected behaviour? iirc, emerge -u world acts just on the world set, not on the deps... Could be whacked on that, since it's 3 am also... I think it does dependencies also, if not than there should be some way to check EVERYTHING on the system for upgrades. I did an emerge -p --emptytree world and I noticed that some things like xchat and mozilla-thunderbird were left out. Also left out was media-libs/libmng which is a dependency of thunderbird. However, mozilla-firefox was in the list and so was dev-libs/expat which is a dependency of firefox. So, it appears that stuff I have manually installed recently and the dependencies of those packages are in my list and will be upgraded when I do an emerge -u world. Other things that I have installed but that got wiped out of the list will not be upgraded. This question still remains. How did my world list get wiped? I know that I did not manually go in there and modify/delete it, and the only portage commands I have used are: emerge somePackage emerge unmerge somePackage emerge sync emerge -upv world (I always like to pretend first just to check things) emerge -u world and just a few minutes ago I did emerge -p --emptytree world If anyone has any idea how my world file was wiped, please let me know. |