-u means upgrade. On February 11, 2003 05:25 pm, Carlos Molina Garcia wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm new on gentoo, and I appreciate it a lot. > I have a little question about emerge. > > 1) What are the function of the -u option on emerge..??? > Lokk at this example. > emerge -pu postgresql > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild UD] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1-r7 [1.4.1_beta] > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 [5.2.20020511-r3] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.3-r1 [4.2-r5] > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.54 [2.53a] > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.2 [2.2.1-r5] > [ebuild UD] dev-java/ant-1.5.1-r2 [1.5.1-r3] > [ebuild UD] dev-python/egenix-mx-base-2.0.3 [2.0.4] > [ebuild UD] dev-db/postgresql-7.3 [7.3.1] > > > and now without the -u > > emerge -p postgresql > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild UD] dev-db/postgresql-7.3 [7.3.1] > > > but the man emerge says me it. > > --update (-u) > Updates packages to the most recent version available. > Note that --update does not > have full functionality yet. It will not automatically > update dependencies of pack- > ages in the world file, unless they too are in the world file. > > Then, what are the correct procedure to update a package...?? > > NOTE: I made a mistake on my make.conf and uncomment the > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and now, I have some testing packages installed. > I'm wait that developers promote these packages to stable branch, but > take the above lines only like an example. > > Thanks a lot.. > > Carlos > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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