Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging world selectively
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:44:40
Message-Id: 200610081935.02906.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerging world selectively by Fredrik Tolf
1 On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:24, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
2 > If, when I emerge -Duva world, it calculates a package that I, for any
3 > reason, would like to delay/not emerge at all, how would I do to emerge
4 > all the packages except that one. This far, I've been running emerge
5 > -1va on all the others in the list (manually, that is), but I'm getting
6 > quite tired of that method, and I'm guessing that portage has some way
7 > of avoiding it.
8
9 You package.mask it. See the bottom section of [1].
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11 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_chap3
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14 Bo Andresen