previously, if you did `emerge foo -u` and foo was already installed and at the latest version, emerge wouldnt do anything ... that behavior has changed now: root@G5[ppc] 0 ~ # emerge cross-sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/binutils -qup [ebuild R ] cross-sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/binutils-2.17 root@G5[ppc] 0 ~ # emerge cross-sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/binutils -qu >>> Emerging (1 of 1) cross-sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/binutils-2.17 to / Portage 2.1.2_pre1-r1 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo ppc PPC970MP, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r5, 2.16.1-r2, 2.16.91.0.3, 2.16.91.0.4, 2.16.91.0.5, 2.16.91.0.6, 2.16.91.0.7, 2.16.92, 2.16.93, 2.16.94, 2.17, 2.17.50.0.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,relro" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X a52 aac aalib acl alsa altivec amr asf audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts boundschecking bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt css cups curl directfb dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode fame ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gd gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_void ipv6 isdnlog jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux libcaca libwww lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mng modplug motif mp3 mp4 mpeg multislot musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pcre pdf pdflib perl php png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rle samba sdl session sndfile spell spl ssl subversion tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_ati video_cards_nv video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_sisusb video_cards_vga vidix vorbis x264 xanim xinetd xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid yv12 zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks for noticing (it gave me an excuse to clean up some messy logic). This is fixed in svn 4524.
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1-r2.
