On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:39 pm, S. Cowles wrote: > i would like to emerge all available categories and packages. is there a > simple, non-interactive way to do this? >
Is this serious or just a joke?
If it is serious, then the short answer is: you can't.
The long answer: you can't 'cos there'll always be conflicting packages (for
example, you can't emerge qmail and postfix at the same time.) OTOH, you can
"emerge -f" all the packages (it's a guess, I've never tried this.) A very
simple way to do that is:
find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild' -exec emerge -f '{}' ';'
I guess, 14GB or 15GB will hold all the packages and patches. Note however
that the above command doesn't take into account that there're masked
packages; but you could "rm /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask" ;-)
Now a question. Why would you want to do that?
Regards,
Norberto
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