Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:36:14
Message-Id: 20120803093404.0b0c888e@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one. by Alan McKinnon
1 On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 02:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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3 > I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood
4 > and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual
5 > package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking
6 > emerge output.
7
8 How about
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10 qlist -ICv | sed 's/^/=/' >/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
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12 That will generate the initial list to prevent anything from downgrading
13 when you switch keywords. Then use eix-test-obsolete from time to time to
14 tell you what you can remove. Anything still in there are a few months
15 should probably be allowed to downgrade.
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18 --
19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Windows Error #56: Operator fell asleep while waiting.

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