[gentoo-user] emerge does not update

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Wood
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 te

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update

2008-06-14 Thread Edward Hades
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 pa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Peter Wood 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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge does not update

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Wood
Thanks Peter, yes, with-bdeps pulls the packes in that were ignored before. Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2008, Peter Wood 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