emerge -u world forgets some packages

Robelix

I recently had an interesting problem:

emerge -u world failed to build alsaplayer-0.99.73. The error happened when compiling FlacTag.cpp, so I had a look to flac:
emerge search flac showed that I had 1.0.3 installed and 1.0.4 is available, but was not updated with the emerge -u world.
emerge -u flac did the update, and also alsaplayer compiled fine then.

Later building audacity-1.0.0-r2 failed. This time it was wxGTK. Again a new version available, but emerge -u world forgot to update it, emerge -u wxGTK did the update.

How is it possible that emerge -u world forgets some packages?

MadEagle · Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject:

I am not sure wether this applies to your problem but "emerge -u world" only updates packages that are in the world file (/var/cache/edb/world). If you want to update every single package including dependencies use "emerge -u --deep world".

MadEagle

Robelix · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 1:06 am Post subject:

emerge -p -u --deep wold shows me 27 additional packages.
Any idea why all this stuff was not added to the world-file?

BlackBart · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 252

the world file is only the packages you explicitly emerged by typing
emerge packagename
emerge --deep emerges dependencies of dependencies.

Robelix · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:36 pm Post subject:

So if - just for example - I run "emerge alsaplayer" and this builds flac and alsaplayer. Then alsaplayer will be added to world, but not flac, right?

Another question:
Is it save to add packages to the world file manually? like:
echo "media-libs/flac" >> /var/cache/edb/world

rac · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:54 am Post subject:

Robelix · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 1:19 pm Post subject:

Thx for help!

rac · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject:

I said earlier that manually adding things to the world file was presumed OK, but Problem/Misunderstanding with 'emerge -u world' may be changing my mind. I don't know if older Portages were more forgiving.
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