I have encountered this problem intermittently since I began using Gentoo. Not all dependencies are being updated when I run emerge -u world, for whatever reason. Here is an example from this evening. I run 'emerge -u world -p' and it comes back as nothing needs updating. I run 'dep-clean -vv' and it comes back that 'netpbm-9.12-r2.ebuild' is installed, but has no packages depending on it, and that 'netpbm-9.12- r3.ebuild' is not installed, but is depended on. I run 'emerge netpbm -p' and sure enough, it shows that netpbm has an update available. I have no clue why 'emerge -u world -p' doesn't catch this package, but it also doesn't seem to be catching alot of other dependency packages, as lately this is a weekly occurrence. I am running a P3 600, Gentoo 1.4_RC1, GCC3.2, and the Gentoo-Sources -r9 kernel. -PJ http://www.elitegamer.com
I was going to report this too. It can be illustrated by the command: # emerge -p $(qpkg -I -nc) | grep -v R ...which should like the same packages as: # emerge -up world On my system, the first command lists 57 packages, the second lists one. Happy to provide more details if required. Keith
what happens if you run this: `grep netpbm /var/cache/edb/world`
It spits out 'media-libs/netpbm'. This might be because I manually emerged the package last night and upgraded, thus adding it to the world file.
i'm not marking this as duplicate because it comes up every so often ... basically the idea is that dependencies arent written to the world file because they shouldnt have to be ... if you `emerge mod_php`, then apache isnt written to the world file, the reason being when a new version of apache is released, then an `emerge world -u` should find that the dependency needs updating and would do it automagically what it comes down to is that this behavior really is not happening ...
SpanKY, the problem is 'emerge -u world' SHOULD find the dependency updates, but its not. That is what I'm reporting, not that its not being writen to the world file.
i know ... i didnt say they should be ...
*** Bug 8630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just wanted to point out that yesterday drobbins told me to use the undocumented emerge switch --deep as a tempfix for this. I tried it and it does the job.
Quick perl script i hacked up...should fix it... http://www.phancy-pants.com/stuff/fixit.pl Anyone wants to compliment/complain about it email me...
emerge -u --deep world
