emerge world --pretend (Should it not show everything ?)

SmegTheLight

After running Gentoo for awhile now, and upgrading many packages, I would like to do a --clean world. The problem is, I am not sure exactly which dependancies I might be buggering up.

I figured a 'emerge world' would be nice - just have it rebuild everything, like the man pages said. The problem is, I would like to know just what I am getting into before I do it, so I did a --pretend.. It doesn't show any packages..

I then figured I would just bite the bullet, and did the emerge world - it did nothing. It just did the 'Calc world dep... done' , and that was it ! ?

How does one go about doing an emerge world - is there some "don't shot yourself in the foot" setting I have to turn off ?

ps. I did a search on emerge world on the forums first and since the words "emerge" and "world" are very common, it was a futile search

delta407 · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:14 am Post subject:

What, exactly, are you attempting to do? I think you have your Portage commands confused.

Try running "emerge --help | less -R" and double-check what you're trying to say.
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rac · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 8:55 am Post subject:

Are you using the --update flag? I don't know if the emerge man page is wrong, behaviour has changed since the man page was written, portage is broken, or my systems are poorly configured (maybe more than one of the above), but I notice the same thing.

Let's say I have a host with one package with one package slightly out of date:

MoonWalker · Guru Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 510

This is exactly how my absolute fresh install of Gento 1.2 behave:

#emerge -p world // shows notting to get

#emerge -pu world //shows 2 ebuilds with U flag to get

I guess the distro was updated but team been too busy remember to update the docs in detail. I have no experience of earlier versions as this is my first day in freedom

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SmegTheLight · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:57 pm Post subject:

What I want to do is :

delta407 · Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 5:08 pm Post subject:

Well, if you wanted to do that, you could use emerge --emptytree world to recompile everything, and then run an emerge clean to nuke all the old packages.

But, note that some programs still need an older version of libraries (like Audacity, an ebuild I maintain; it needs wxGTK-2.2.9 because 2.3.2 is still a beta) and running "emerge clean" may destroy these programs.
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SmegTheLight · Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 5:45 am Post subject:

Cool Thanks !

I figure after being able to shoot myself in the foot with emerge clean, the emerge --emptytree world will be a wild ride

/em straps on the seatbelt.