[gentoo-dev] Re: Emerge Update Slot

[Eamon Caddigan]

Spider <spider@g.o> wrote:
> Eamon Caddigan <ecaddiga@××××.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to tell emerge to update a package to the newest
>> version available in a given SLOT? Say I wanted to update to the
>> latest
>> unstable version of gtk1. If I try:
>>
>> $ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pvu \>=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10
>
> I'd go with
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -vpu '<x11-libs/gtk+-2'

That's great for manual updates, but this idea came to me while trying
to automate things. I was working on a script that updated or rebuilt
every package for which the USE flags have changed. It did the trick for
me, but it's *way* too ugly to share... in part because of the hardcoded
SLOT kludges.

-Eamon


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