Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates

[Yogesh Sharma]

Hi,

1. emerge -p world is basic emerge, it checks only packages written to
world file.

2. emerge -puD world is better then emerge -p as it does deep scan.

--update (-u)
              Updates  packages  to  the best version available, which
may not
              always be the highest version number due to masking for 
testing
              and  development.   This  will  also  update direct
dependencies
              which may not be what you want.  In  general,  use  this 
option
              only in combination with the world or system target.

--deep (-D)
              When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces 
emerge
              to  consider  the entire dependency tree of packages,
instead of
              checking only the immediate dependencies of the packages. 
As an
              example, this catches updates in libraries that are not
directly
              listed in the dependencies of a package."

3.  emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`  is my version of  -uD which I checks for
all installed packed including those are missed by -uD.

Thanks
YS

Ben Munat wrote:

> Yogesh Sharma wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually do :
>>
>> emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`
>>
>> once verified I do:
>>
>> emerge -n `qpkg -I -nc`
>>
>> or  emerge individual package from -p output.
>
>
> This is pretty cool... thanks.
>
> One interesting thing though: currently on my home machine, doing:
>
> emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`
>
> or
>
> emerge -p world
>
> or
>
> emerge -puD world
>
> brings up three different orders for the list of packages to emerge.
> The "-p world" has fewer packages, but the other two have the same
> number but in different orders. I suppose that might just mean that
> order's not really significant in this case.
>
> b



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