> -----Original Message----- > From: Albert Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:54 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > emerge -eav world > > > > The corresponding system emerge finished okay. At the beginning of the > > output of the aforementioned command I get. > > > > Calculating world dependencies \ > > !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all > > !!! masked or don't exist: > > media-video/nvidia-glx media-video/nvidia-kernel app-shells/csh > > x11-misc/gtkdiff sci-libs/lapack > > > > I can't find sci-libs/lapack (emerge --search lapack). Could someone > > tell me how is portage looking for it? I think I had it installed > > before > > the upgrade. None of the nvidia stuff is currently installed but were > > installed before the system emerge. I can't find gtkdiff but csh is > > indeed masked: > > Put simply, your current system is old, but it appears you've updated > your portage tree.
Indeed system has been upgraded with gcc 4.1; it was a bit tricky. > Portage is telling you that you have these packages > installed but it can't find them in the portage tree. For example, > nvidia-glx has long been replaced by nvidia-drivers. > > In the Gentoo world, you stand to suffer a bit if you wait a long time > between updates. If you truly intend to keep your system "old", I would Yup. > recommend you make a snapshot of the portage tree as well as your > DISTDIR as those files may no longer be available as well. > > But if you truly want to do an "upgrade", would it not be better to do a > "emerge -Duva" world as opposed to "emerge -eva". "-eva" isn't > upgrading anything, it's just re-building what you already have, but > since many things you have currently no longer exist in portage, it's > likely better to -u instead of -e. Agreed. I used -e in the last upgrade step of system to rebuild it with gcc 4.1 and ended up using for world. > p.s. > Seems like a few people are just now "upgrading" to 2006.1 when 2007.0 > is soon to be released... why are you a year behind? There was something weird about 2006; it went by too fast....:) > > -- > Albert W. Hopkins > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
