> When you installed CUPS in the first place, did you emerge it > specificially, or was it installed as a dependency for another package. > > If I recall correctly, only apps that you emerge specifically are added > to your world file. > > -Peter > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:52, oom wrote: >> Greetings gentooers! >> >> This may have been discussed earlier but don't have time right now to >> check, while reading GWN I noticed some of the new security vulns, CUPS >> caught my eye as I was playing with it the other day.. >> >> so I did: >> emerge sync >> emerge world -u >> <after download and install stuff> >> I thought it would have updated cups too but.. >> # emerge cups -p >> >> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies ...done! >> [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.1.18-r5 [1.1.18-r4] >> >> Is there a problem or have I mis-understood what portage does? >> >> -- ooM >>
If you emerge --deep -u world it *should* want to upgrade cups if it was emerged as a dependency of another package. If you type "emerge cups" then I believe it gets upgraded and added to the world file. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
