On 12/29/2009 08:23 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Hi. > > I want package A to incur a rebuild of package B, due to a newly > introduced USE flag which affects B. I wish to express this in the > package's ebuild. I therefore DEPENDed A in B[use_flag]. When I attempt > to emerge A, portage offers to *upgrade* the dependency, taking in the > new USE setting (there's an available upgrade in the tree). I want the > dependency to be *rebuilt*, maintaining the same version currently > installed. Can I tell emerge to do that? I'm looking for a general > method of doing this, I.E. I wish to remain unaware of the specific > version of the installed B package: If it's there, don't upgrade it, > just rebuild w/new USE flag.
The only way to do that now is to mask the unwanted update in /etc/portage/package.mask. -- Thanks, Zac
