emerge never knows...

legobuff · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 11:35 am Post subject: emerge never knows...

I seem to be having an issue with emerge.
If I do an

lanark · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 11:54 am Post subject:

that's not an issue.

emerge lets you re-emerge anything you want, for a problem you can had with that package, or if you messed up something with it... whatever.

so, when you try to emerge a package that you already have installed, you get the [ R ] mark, to tell you that you already have it, if you don't have any problem with it or don't have modified it, you don't need to re-emerge it.

when the package has changed, and there is a new version availabe, you will get a [ U ] mark and the indication of which version you have and which is available (all that after an emerge rsync, of course)

Regards,
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legobuff · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject: Thanks

Thank you lanark... So if I see an [R] I can safely ignore it until I see a [U].

One more question then, after an emerge, why do some packages show an [R] and others do not?

Thank you again,

-legobuff

StuBear · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject:

If you are unsure what version of a program you have installed, you can use

legobuff · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 1:29 pm Post subject:

Excellent!

Thank you StuBear