> > I just did an emerge-UDp world and there are a bunch of packages that I > > would like to update. Open Office is NOT one of them. It struck me that > > it would be convenient to have a switch for portage so that I could do > > something like: > > # emerge -UD world --except openoffice > > Or is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > Try to write your specific version in the "world" file, then emerge will > assume that you need that version of openoffice, and not some other one. > Regards, > - -- > Juan �ngel > PGP key on pgp.rediris.es (8FAF18B7) > or search on http://www.rediris.es/cert/servicios/keyserver/
Well what I usually do is the following: cp /var/cache/edb/world /var/cache/edb/world.bak nano -w /var/cache/edb/world (now remove the line with openoffice) emerge -uDe world cp /var/cache/edb/world.bak /var/cache/edb/world This is a horrible hack I know but it works like a charm. I used to try to play around by pinning "=" the version in my world file but this didn't seem to work very well.. but it has been a long time since I tried, like back in 1.1 or earlier.. LOL! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
