405783 – emerge man page inadequate for -n option

Bug 405783 - emerge man page inadequate for -n option

Summary: emerge man page inadequate for -n option

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	472632
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Reported:	2012-02-25 16:07 UTC by Peter Fox
Modified:	2013-08-03 10:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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[PATCH] Fixes the bug (0003-man-emerge.1-Fix-bug-405783-by-elaborating-n.patch,982 bytes, patch) 2013-07-30 21:04 UTC, Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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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.