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From: YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:31:18
Message-Id: 20100710123039.GA1510@ksp.sk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output by Willie Wong
1 On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:11:49AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
3 > > is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has
4 > > something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me
5 > > via email.
6 >
7 > Usually "is there an option..." questions are well-answered by "man
8 > <program name>". And in this case the closest thing from the man page
9 > is the -q option, which doesn't do exactly what you want.
10 >
11 > Cheers,
12
13 revdep-rebuild --help
14 ...
15 -p, --pretend Do a trial run without actually emerging anything
16 (also passed to emerge command)
17
18
19 it would basically show you what would be emerged...
20 -q and -P might be usefull to get rid of unwated output...
21
22 yoyo