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From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
To: purslow@×××××××××.ca
Cc: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] improving world & pkg
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:10:48
Message-Id: 40748A75.1070601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] improving world & pkg by purslow@sympatico.ca
1 purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote:
2 > 040407 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
3 >
4 >>yes, you can explicitly exclude things w '--oneshot',
5 >>but that has to be done each time & has no short equivalent.
6 >
7 >
8 > -- sensible comments snipped after reading: thanks --
9 >
10 >
11 >>You may want to define an alias for this to be sure you won't forget,
12 >>in your ~/.bashrc: alias remerge='emerge --oneshot'
13 >
14 >
15 > i tried this -- as i said in a subsequent message -- ,
16 > but Bash rejected it as an unknown flag:
17 > hence the need for a shorter version, eg '-w'.
18 >
19 Maybe you should try again.
20 This works fine here:
21
22 neysx@basil ng $ cat ~/.bashrc
23 alias epv='emerge --pretend --verbose'
24
25 neysx@basil ng $ epv bash
26
27 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
28
29 Calculating dependencies ...done!
30 [ebuild R ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r9 -build +nls 0 kB
31
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33 I tried adding an e1='emerge --oneshot' alias and it worked equally well.
34
35
36 Hth,
37 --
38 / Xavier Neys
39 \_ Gentoo Documentation Project
40 / French & Internationalisation Lead
41 \ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en
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