FAQ: Operation
- Paludis does not update DEPENDs of already installed packages
- Updating world misses things
- Get package information for a bug report
Paludis does not update DEPENDs of already installed packages
Paludis ignores build time dependencies (DEPENDs) of already installed packages by default.
If you need a different behaviour, use the --dl-installed-deps-pre
option. You may also want to use the everything
set rather than
world
.
Updating world misses things
Paludis doesn't 'miss' packages. If you think it is missing something, check the following:
- See the previous item. Is the thing in question only included as a build dependency of a package?
- Are you sure the package is in world?
paludis --query world
will tell you. - Is the upgrade being blocked by another package that depends upon a lower version of the thing being missed?
Get package information for a bug report
Use paludis --info
to get general configuration information. Paludis will not show any
configuration that is 'per-package' in this output. (This is different to emerge
, which misleadingly shows
an arbitrary global configuration no matter what.)
If you are submitting a bug report for a particular package, use paludis --info spec
instead.
If it's an installed package, spec can usually just be the qualified package name (for example, paludis
--info sys-apps/paludis
). If you're installing a package, you should instead specify an exact package ID
(such as paludis --info =sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha12::paludis-overlay
).
What do those fancy arrows when merging things mean?
They tell how each file is merged to root. They consist of three parts:
- The first part talks about what happened to the entry this one is replacing (if any):
>
- The entry didn't exist
=
- The entry was reused
<
- The entry was unlinked
- The second part refers to how it was merged:
>
- This entry was copied
-
- Merged using
rename()
^
- Merged by using
rename()
on a parent directory &
- Merged as a hardlink
- The third part refers to permissions and modes:
>
- Nothing done
~
- Fixed ownership
*
- Added set*id bits
+
- Copied xattrs