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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] What happened to emerge --world update
From:       Bart Verwilst <verwilst () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-03-24 17:15:12
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On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:04, Dan Armak wrote:
|| On Saturday 23 March 2002 12:49, Jared H. Hudson wrote:
|| > What happened to emerge --world update? It seems to be missing the
|| > script and emerge --help, but it's still listed in the man page.
|| >
|| > If that option is being phased out, how am I suppose to rebuild
|| > everything that needs to be updaded including/but not limited to the
|| > system packages?
|| >
|| > Portage ver: 1.8.9_pre32
||
|| The 1.8.9 portage tree is an potentially unstable development tree in
|| testing. World update exists in the 1.8.8 tree, you can emerge
|| portage-1.8.8-r1. Portage 1.8.9 is masked for a reason.
||
|| World update will be added to 1.8.9 at some point; it has been removed
|| because it's going to be rewritten. The new world update will produce a
|| slightly diferent result from the old one. I don't know the exact
|| timetable, but we'll have a stable unmasked 1.8.9 portage with world
|| update by the time 1.0 is out.

Well actually 1.8.9_pre32 is unmasked :o)

-- 
Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

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