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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:14 pm    Post subject: emerge update not updating packages? Reply with quote

I just noticed that my typical 'emerge -uD @world' isn't catching some updates. The typical output:

Code:
mail linux-3.6.8 # emerge -puD @world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

 * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.


And the output of update but also with the newuse flag:

Code:
mail linux-3.6.8 # emerge -puDN @world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.19  USE="-build%"
[ebuild     U  ] sys-apps/ed-1.6 [1.4]
[ebuild   R   #] sys-devel/gcc-4.7.2  USE="(-nocxx%)"
[ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/busybox-1.20.2  USE="static* -systemd%"
[ebuild     U  ] net-misc/curl-7.26.0 [7.25.0-r1] CURL_SSL="-cyassl%"
[ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0-r3 [2.8.0-r2]
[ebuild   R    ] net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4  USE="-bindist%"
[ebuild   R   #] media-video/ffmpeg-9999  USE="-fdk%"

 * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.


Eh? I would have expected sys-apps/ed, net-misc/curl and dev-libs/libxml2 to be caught and updated with the -uD flags but they weren't. Am I right about that or what?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always do --update --deep --newuse --changed-use --with-bdeps=y
emerge's man page explains all of them... technically you wouldn't use --newuse and --changed-use unless you added/changed USE flags, but it doesn't hurt and I don't have to keep track of my changes, so there you go. I'm lazy :-)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my mind, the issue has nothing to do with use flags. It's that -uD should be picking up these package updates and building them. It seems to be picking them up correctly when other packages are built but not solely with -uD. I've been using gentoo for years and years and this is the first time I've noticed this behavior which makes me think it's a bug.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's possible that the other packages are build-time only dependencies of the packages that get updated with --newuse. Try dropping the --newuse flag and adding the --with-bdeps=y option and see if those hidden updates pop up. Normally, if a package is installed only because it's necessary to build some other package, updates are avoided until the other package needs to be updated.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed --with-bdeps=y does work. I've never noticed this behavior in all of the time I've used Gentoo.

I really thought just -uD would have covered everything but I see the distinction. Thank you.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasn't there when you and I started using Gentoo. It's relatively new, perhaps 3 - 4 years old. There's a huge amount of work that's been done on the dependency resolver: more and more blockers are solved automatically by Portage now.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting history.

I'm glad I'm not completely crazy. Though 3-4 years is an awful long time for me to not notice something. I'm happy to say, most of the time, things work quite well and as expected.
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