emerge -pvuDN world seems to be missing some pkgs. [solved]

[Alanceil]

This morning I played around with eix, and found out that emerge seems to be missing some packages when doing an update.

The command 'eix -uc', which shows up- or downgradeable packages, gives the following output:

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alanceil@kvirasim:12:17:0:~> eix -uc
[U] app-arch/lzma-utils (4.32.6@19/10/08 -> 4.32.7): LZMA interface made easy
[U] app-emulation/wine (1.1.8@09/11/08 -> (~)1.1.9): free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix
[U] app-text/build-docbook-catalog (1.2@09/12/07 -> 1.4): DocBook XML catalog auto-updater
[U] app-text/rarian (0.8.0-r1@19/10/08 -> 0.8.1): A documentation metadata library
[U] dev-lang/yasm (0.6.1@19/10/08 -> 0.7.1): Assembler that supports amd64
[U] sys-apps/ed (0.8@19/10/08 -> 1.0): Your basic line editor
Found 8 matches.

However, an 'emerge -pvuDN world' the following:

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alanceil@kvirasim:12:15:0:~> emerge -pvuDN world

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

Calculating dependencies                                ... done!
[ebuild     U ] app-emulation/wine-1.1.9 [1.1.8] USE="X alsa cups gecko jpeg ncurses opengl samba (-dbus) -esd (-gnutls) (-hal) -jack -lcms -ldap (-nas) -oss (-scanner) -xml" 11,484 kB

When I manually specify the packages that eix mentioned, emerge sees them as upgradeable:

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alanceil@kvirasim:12:17:0:~> emerge -pv yasm

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/yasm-0.7.1 [0.6.1] USE="nls" 1,380 kB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 1,380 kB

So, does anyone have an idea why this might be happening ?
For the record, I am using portage-2.2_rc15, the mentioned behaviour also occured with rc12.
emerge --info output is a bit longer, you can get it here.

[netfab]

Try :

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# emerge -pvuDN --with-bdeps=y world

And set it in your make.conf using EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

[Alanceil]

Thank you very much, that did the trick.

[kowal]

Try :

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# emerge -pvuDN --with-bdeps=y world

And set it in your make.conf using EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

In my case it doesn't work. eix -uc shows upgrades but emerge -pvuDN --with-bdeps=y shows zero 0 packages to be merged.

[netfab]

In my case it doesn't work. eix -uc shows upgrades but emerge -pvuDN --with-bdeps=y shows zero 0 packages to be merged.

Is your system up-to-date ? Are these packages still required by your system ? I mean : if a package is installed, but is not required anymore, it will be pulled in by emerge --depclean. Until you doesn't run the depclean, eix will see it as upgrade, but emerge will not.

Edit : an example on my system :

The other day I installed app-arch/unace like this :

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# emerge --oneshot unace

The 1.2b-r1 version has been installed, and will be removed next time I will run emerge --depclean.

Now if I run :

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# echo 'app-arch/unace' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

and :

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# emerge unace -pv

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] app-arch/unace-2.5-r1 [1.2b-r1] 134 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 134 kB

Portage wants to upgrade it, because I ask this specific package.
But if I run :

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$ emerge -pvuDN world

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

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4  USE="cups gif opengl -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql* -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama" 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.4.6 [6.4.0.6] USE="X bzip2 corefonts%* jpeg openmp%* perl png svg tiff truetype xml zlib -djvu -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbig -jpeg2k -lcms -nocxx -openexr -q32 -q8 -raw% -wmf" 0 kB 

Total: 2 packages (1 upgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Portage doesn't want to upgrade it.
But eix :

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# eix -uc
[U] app-arch/unace (1.2b-r1(1)@15.11.2008 -> (~)2.5-r1 (~)2.5): ACE unarchiver