I don't know what the underlying cause is, I've asked multiple times of it, but got no reply. The portage does miss some of the updatable packages.
I can only recommend something like 'eix -u --only-names | xargs emerge -u', or less automated 'emerge -pev world | grep " U "', then emerge listed packages. On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Peter Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I just ran eix-sync and it informs me that there are updates available for 2 > packages (Archiv-Tar and Archive-Zip). Both packages are pulled in by othe > packages that are either in world or system. The current versions are not > locked anywhere, nor are the new ones masked as far as I can tell. Still, > emerge --update --deep world > and > emerge --update --deep system > tell me that there are no updates to install. > I did emerge --metadata and emerge --regen, but the result is the same. > Does anybody have any idea what I might be doing wrong? > Thanks, > Peter > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Henny Youngman - "When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays." -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
