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

[Neil Bothwick]

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"~"}'


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Neil Bothwick

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