On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:21:21PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> > emerge sync
> > emerge -Dpuv world
> > emerge -Dfu world
> > emerge -Du world
> >
> > In about that order.
>
> In English, that would be:
>
> emerge sync
> emerge --deep --pretend --update --verbose world
> emerge --deep --fetchonly --update world
> emerge --deep --update world
>
> (-D is not in the emerge man page.)
bash-2.05b$ emerge --help |grep D
--deep (-D short option)
Disables the spinner irregardless of terminal type.
package, D = possible downgrading. --verbose causes affecting
Tell emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are
This option is useful for CD installs; you can export
PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have
emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to satisfy
Displays the currently installed version of portage along with
But your right, the man page has the above explaination but leaves out "(-D short
option)"
I'll fix that.
Thanks,
Jack Morgan
Gentoo/Sparc
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