What's up with gnome updates?

surak · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 10:56 pm Post subject: What's up with gnome updates?

I noticed in the gentoo cvs updates mailing list a bunch of new gnome updates. an emerge rsync and emerge -up world didn't show any updated packages, but if I do emerge -up gnome I get

rommel · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 6:06 am Post subject:

are tehy maybe masked...there is a bunch of gnome stuff in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, i am too lazy to check it carefully for you and , well i dont run gnome

Russki · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 7:39 am Post subject:

Do "emerge rsync --clean" and unmask the new packages in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. It works fine for me
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surak · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:51 pm Post subject:

No, these packages were never masked in the first place (if they were, they wouldn't have shown up when I did emerge -up gnome). These are new updates to packages that simply didn't show up when I did emerge -up world. I'm just curious if this is a problem with portage (or just me?) and what exactly is happening.

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

it's b/c they aren't in your /var/cache/edb/world files. Only gnome-base/gnome is in there so there has to be an update to gnome before it will find anything else. Stupid? Yes, Try this thread

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7487&highlight=

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surak · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:23 pm Post subject:

Hmm... but what I find really strange is that even though I only have gnome-base/gnome in my world file, how come it will only tell me about gnome updates if I try to update the gnome package by itself?

rfru · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

not every package is automatically added to /var/cache/edb/world, so for those that aren't, they stay at their old versions until an actual emerge dependency requires you to upgrade