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Sargon
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 Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:54 pm Post subject: emerge never happy with me |
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Hi
I have a question concerning emerge.
I'm a bit confused about the output I get from emerge in the following situation:
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# emerge -p -deep kde
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.2.7
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I'm sure I have the package gcc-config already.. So why the 'N', which means 'New'?
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# emerge -p --deep gcc-config
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.2.7
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Interesting.. when I specify the package directly, it only wants to replace it. (same happens w/o the '--deep' option)
And if I skip the -'p' option and let emerge _really_ do its work, and check again, it wants to replace it again, and again and again.
And I have several of these packages, which are installed, but somehow emerge is confused. Ok, I'm sure _I_ am the one who's confused..  What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance!
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Is it a typo, or is there really only one hyphen in your first example? Having -e in there might explain what you are seeing.
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Sargon
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hi rac
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Is it a typo, or is there really only one hyphen in your first example? Having -e in there might explain what you are seeing.
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Gosh I feel stupid now... I indeed forgot the 2nd hyphen in my first example... I even tried it two times, but since I copy/pasted the commands... *blushes and hides behind the next tree*
So the 1st "mystery" is solved, but the 2nd remains, right?
Sargon
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Matje
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Off course if you tell emerge to emerge gcc-config, it will just do that? Even if it means replacing it.
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:04 am Post subject: |
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As Matje said, the 2nd mystery is that "emerge X" will emerge X, even if the current version is installed. It's doing what you asked it to.
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Twink
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 8:35 am Post subject: |
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although maybe a
emerge -u X
would be what you wanted (doesn't that only install if there's a newer version?) |
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