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On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > Each time i run "emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated |
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> > each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like |
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> > gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. |
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> > Is there any way i can avoid he same ? |
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> Perhaps you mean 'emerge -avuND world' instead of gnome ? :-) |
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well, this is exactly what emerge -u world is supposed to do... If you |
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don't want to upgrade then don't upgrade! Alternatively you could |
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specify the packages you want to upgrade, instead of world. |
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> You can temporarily create a file in /etc/portage/package.mask/ to block |
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> out some big ebuilds. Say you want to leave the latest gcc and glibc |
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> for later, then put this in it: |
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> >=sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2 |
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> >=sys-libs/glibc-2.5.1 |
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> |
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> Do your emerge world, those versions will be ignored. Later on you when |
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> you have time can delete this temp file and rerun emerge world. |
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> |
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> There are several ways you could accomplish this result, the above is |
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> what I tend to do |
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another few things I'd add: You probably want to use the stable keyword |
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(eg ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" not ~x86 in /etc/make.conf) - that way you'll |
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get a few less upgrades (and downgrades). |
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Also, perhaps you only want to upgrade in case of security releases - |
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`emerge gentoolkit` and then try `glsa-check -v -t all` to see what |
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applies. |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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QOTD: |
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"Wouldn't it be wonderful if real life supported control-Z?" |
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