Portage, not showing any updates even if updates exist.

[dev_zero]

Ok so I've had this problem for a while lurking in the shadows, it's not really any big of a deal but it just annoyes me, quite alot actually. I've found several bug reports etc from the past which states portage can't find updates when doing some form of emerge -uDNv system world etc, even though doing emerge -v on the specific package shows an update for the package exist.

The packages in my case are not in the world file. They are dependencies of one or multiple of the packages in the world or system file so if I have not misunderstood the -D flag should take care of that, but yet it doesn't. Some of the updates doesn't even show when putting on the -e flag, even though it lists all the packages I have installed. With the -e flag it lists some new updates which doesn't show with any other flag combination on emerge, but still I know at least 1 package that doesn't show, so I presume it's more where that came from.

Have anyone else noticed anything like this? And more importantly what is the correct way of updating *all* packages on the system, if it is any?

regards

[Hu]

Have you checked whether adding --with-bdeps=y causes the update to be included? Without a specific failure case, it is hard to speculate on the cause.