On 02:41 Sat 23 Feb , Erik wrote: > Alan McKinnon skrev: > > "emerge -uNDf world" does nothing because the system is up to date. Even if > all distfiles are missing, it does nothing (try to move the distfiles > directory away while executing it). That command is supposed to "download > everything that is missing to update the system". And since the system is > up to date, nothing is needed to update it and it will therefore not > download anything. > > What I wanted was "download everything that is missing to reinstall > everything that is currently installed". That is what "emerge -ef world" > should do. Then I wanted to "remove everything that is not needed to > reinstall everything that is currently installed". That is what "eclean > --destructive distfiles" should do. Doing both should result in a set of > distfiles that is "what is needed and only what is needed to reinstall > everything that is currently installed (assuming that the system is up to > date)". But since the 2 commands do not agree, something is broken > somewhere. > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
Have you checked to see if the files deleted by eclean are the current versions, or are they old? If they are the most recent you have installed, then there is a problem with eclean. If not, then the problem is with --fetchonly -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
