emerge -pu world weirdness

[bobby]

Hello,
I have encountered some weirdness concerning emerge and update world. Yesterday, I issued the following command:

emerge -pu world

it listed approximately 4 packages that needed to be updated. One of the packages that needed to be updated was glib (from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1). I did not get to perform the actual upgrade yesterday though. Today I issued an emerge sync (to get everything up to date) and then emerge -pu world again. This time it said that I needed to update the portage package by itself before looking for other packages to update. Now, after I let the package update everything seemed to go ok. I updated the necessary files in /etc/ as requested. Now, here is the strange part. I again issued the command emerge -pu world to update the packages that I was told needed to be updated yesterday but they are were no longer listed as needing to be updated. The only thing I see now is:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!

Now, I remembered one of the package names that emerge -pu world told me to update yesterday, it was glib. So, out of curiousity I issued the command, emerge -p glib. The output that I got was:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.2.1 [2.2.0]

So, the package does still need to be updated by why does emerge -pu world not reflect this? Is something broken in the new portage package? Any help would be much appreciated.

[pascall]

I had almost the same problem : I installed a new version of portage and world dependencies changed. There is a script "regenworld" which corrects this with new versions of portage. You just have to run it as root and it should correct your problem.

[jasonpf]

I just updated portage and noticed the regenworld option. I decided that I wanted to know more about it so typed "regenworld --help" after my system was updated. It went through and decided that Qt needed updating. After typing emerge -s qt I get the following entry:

* x11-libs/qt
Latest version available: 3.1.0-r3
Latest version installed: 3.1.1
Size of downloaded files: 13,062 kB
Homepage: http://www.trolltech.com/
Description: QT version 3.1.0

I also get this when I type emerge -p world:
[ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3 [3.1.1]

I currently HAVE 3.1.1! Is this a glitch? Or should I re-emerge qt? If I do, will I get 3.1.0-r3 and will I have to re-emerge kde 3.1? I'm not sure how those two work together as far as Qt version after the build of KDE, if its just important during the build and not after or ???.

If this is a glitch, how to I fix it? I've tried emerge -i x11-libs/qt-3.1.1 to no avail...it says it already exists.