On Friday 11 July 2003 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Friday 11 July 2003 12:12, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there a way to emerge an entire directory with a single command, > > > e.g., something like: > > > emerge gnome-base/* ? > > ehm... last time i checked, just going to the directory, and typing "emerge > *" worked just fine. hehe. Exactly what I did below, just without telling bash how to do shell expansion! ;-)
> > > That's fairly easy. How about the following? > > for i in `ls /usr/portage/gnome-base`; do emerge $i; done > > > > Of course, that will re-emerge anything that's already installed. To only > > emerge new stuff, you can do this: > > > > for i in `ls /usr/portage/gnome-base`; do [ -a /var/db/pkg/$i ] || emerge > > $i; done > > that's what emerge -n is for (do not remerge packages, only install or > update) I always did do things the hard way. ;-) -- Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
