What does the F flag mean?

[jefftang]

Today I got:

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malazan /root# emerge -up xv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    FU ] media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r4 [3.10a-r3] 

What does the "F" mean. I couldn't find anything in the documentation and searching the forums was pretty futile. It's red, so it looks like it's important. I looked at /usr/bin/portage, and it looks like it stands for "fetch", but I still don't know what it means. What does it mean? and where is it documented?

[Slyde]

emerge -f would 'fetch' the distfile for what package. its useful when you just need to retrive the tarball.

[jefftang]

emerge -f would 'fetch' the distfile for what package. its useful when you just need to retrive the tarball.

But what does the F in the emerge output for xv mean? I can do an emerge -f for any package.

[dma]

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.c ... text/plain

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DEPEND="virtual/x11
	jpeg? ( >=media-libs/jpeg-6b )
	tiff? ( >=media-libs/tiff-3.5 )
	png? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.2 )
	>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4"
RESTRICT="fetch"

Most likely that last line.

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       RESTRICT = [nostrip,nomirror,fetch,nouserpriv]
              This should be a space delimited list  of  portage
              features to restrict.
              nostrip
                     final   binaries/libraries   will   not  be
                     stripped of debug symbols.
              nouserpriv
                     Disables userpriv for specific packages.
              nomirror
                     files in SRC_URI  will  not  be  downloaded
                     from the GENTOO_MIRRORS.
              fetch  like  nomirror  but  the  files will not be
                     fetched via SRC_URI either.

       pkg_nofetch
              If you turn on fetch in RESTRICT, then this  func-
              tion  will be run when the files in SRC_URI cannot
              be found.  Useful for  displaying  information  to
              the  user  on *how* to obtain said files.  All you
              have to do is output a message and let  the  func-
              tion  return.  Do not end the function with a call
              to die.

Looks like they forgot that last part...

[jefftang]

Great. Thanks.

[Brandy]

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