Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

[Sebastian Günther]

* Neil Bothwick (neil@××××××××××.uk) [12.03.09 10:49]:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > The atom syntax you want is <package>~ which means any -rN version
> > (including -r0) of the base version.
>
> I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it
> could be used at the end too.
>
> > You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et),
> > mangle it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot
> > to a package.mask file in a format something like this:
> >
> > >app-1.1.0~
>
> emerge portage-utils
> qatom $(qlist -ICv) | awk '{print ">"$1"/"$2"-"$3"~"}'
>

I was playing with this, since I'm thinking about gradually reverting my 
system to stable.

What i was wondering: Is there a reason why you split the qlist output 
into atoms, just to put it together the same way qlist has spitted it 
out?

qlist -ICv | awk '{print ">~"$1}'
should do the job or am I mistaken?

Sebastian

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