On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:56 am, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > ---------- quoting Ernie Schroder ---------- > > > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > Maybe that's not exactly what you are looking for, but you could try > to inject the packages you don't want to update. So it would look > like: > > shell$ emerge -i openoffice-<version> > shell$ emerge -i <other_packages> > shell$ emerge -UD world > > If you then want to upgrade openoffice later, you still can do a > normal: > > shell$ emerge -p openoffice-<version> > > HTH, Matthias
True, this will work, but, tell me: After at some point I do: # emerge -p openoffice-<version> will openoffice be back in my "worldfile" and update normally? Wouldn't it still be simpler to have the --except switch? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
