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