On Tuesday 04 March 2003 17:02, Christian Herzyk wrote: > When doing my emerge -up world a number of packages come up, but > very often it is only a -rxx-Version change. In most cases these > are not needed as nothing really new is in it or I am not suffering > of the fixed bug. I don't mind if its a small package but I rather > would not update qt or kde or something for such a minor version > change (even not for changes like kde 3.1.x). > But that leaves me updating every other package by hand (always > being on the watch that no big package is updated as a dependency). > So the niche update world feature has lost its beauty. > What I would love to see is some way that you could tell what level > of minimum change has to happen (should work wirth most packages > that use X.Y.Z-rV) before it is upgraded (semi-)automatically. > I am not sure if such a thing was discussed before, but what do you > think?
You can inject a version of an ebuild with the "-i" option. After that, portage "thinks" that the injected package is allready installed... Please refer to the portage man page for more infos... HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- I probably shouldn't have eaten that packet of powered gravy I found in the parking lot. - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
