On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 2011-09-13 15:55, Askar Bektassov wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My question is straightforward, under what circumstances emerge world >> re-emerges packages even if installed and updated? >> > > So, strictly speaking, emerge takes an atom and will install that. In this > case, 'world' is the atom. 'emerge world' will REINSTALL every atom in your > world file (.../var/lib/portage/world). The canonical way to UPDATE all > packages is with the short options "-uDN", emerge -pvuDN world. Jeremy, What a swift response! You effectively addressed my question: is it possible that when I was using Gentoo/Linux few years ago (<2007), portage behaved the way you described even if the user was not appending the --update option? I might be wrong, but my memory suggests that on several machines with Gentoo/Linux installed from stage 1 I ended up using emerge world without the -u option and it always did the right thing (updating packages to the best version). Thank you in advance, Askar Bektassov (Аскар Бектасов)
