emerge -pu rsync does an rsync, not an update of the rsync package Demonstration: parrot:/home/acme# emerge -pu rsync emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend." parrot:/home/acme# emerge -u rsync >>> starting rsync with rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... ,---------------- | Welcome to rsync1.uk.gentoo.org! | | For info on Gentoo Linux, see <http://www.gentoo.org/>. | | For more on this server, see <http://vegetable.org.uk/>. | Please note: an excessive rate of connections to this server does not benefit anyone - a couple of times per day is normally sufficient. A small amount of profiling is undertaken to determine potential abusers and rate-limiting may be enforced if needed. receiving file list ... zsh: 26016 killed emerge -u rsync emerge -pu system shows that: ... [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.5.6-r1 [2.5.6] ... So I need to update rsync, but I can't update it on its own. This used to work in the past. This is with portage 2.0.48. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge -pu rsync Actual Results: emerge: the "sync" action does not support "--pretend." Expected Results: Upgraded the rsync package
This was already mentioned a few times, it's still there for standard unix excuse #1 (historical reasons) :-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 922 ***
