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On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system. However, I |
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> would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild |
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> without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that? |
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No. |
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-e is intended to rebuild *eveything*, not "everything except something". |
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You need to take the long way round and find everything in /var/db/pkg, |
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compile a list of everything there, remove the ones to be excluded and |
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redirect the whole list to emerge. It might even fit on one command line. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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