Hi, Today I executed my daily 'eix-sync -v'. At the end I got this:
################# eix-sync output start ############ . <output snipped> . * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading 100% Applying masks .. Database contains 11248 packages in 148 categories. Diffing databases (11247 - 11248 packages) [N] == app-arch/p7zip (4.42): Port of 7-Zip archiver for Unix [N] == games-mud/tintin (1.96.1): (T)he k(I)cki(N) (T)ickin d(I)kumud clie(N)t [N] == sys-block/di (4.5): Disk Information Utility [U] == www-client/seamonkey (1.0.3): Mozilla Application Suite - web browser, email, HTML editor, IRC [N] == x11-apps/xprop (1.0.1): X.Org xprop application [N] >> app-emulation/libvirt (none): C toolkit to manipulate virtual machines ################# eix-sync output end ############ Seamonkey is set to be updated as you can see. So I started emerge: ################# emerge output start ############ omc-2 ~ # emerge -vauDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies / !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: dev-util/valgrind ... done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] No ################# emerge output end ############ No offer to update seamonkey? Then I tried: ################# emerge output start ############ omc-2 ~ # emerge -va seamonkey These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.3 [1.0.2] USE="crypt gnome ipv6 -debug -java -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznoroaming -postgres -xinerama -xprint" 35,022 kB Total size of downloads: 35,022 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] ################# emerge output end ############ Seamonkey is set to be updated in this emerge run. Why didn't emerge offer to update seamonkey when I used the '-u' option in the first emerge run?? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list