On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:38, Erwin Lang wrote: > with this command I can install a prebuild package on a pc. but I want to know > how I can avoid to build the same package every week if there is no new > version available (as I said, emerge --buildpkg builds a package regardless > if there already exist a "packaged" version of this package in /usr/portage/ > packages or not.). Assume a script execute once a week: `emerge --buildpkg > apache tomcat samba ... (and other packages I need)`. So I don't have to > build packages manually if there is a new version available. And I also > need'n look for new versions of certain packages in portage.
You can use the --update option along with buildpkg. Assuming you don't unmerge the packages after you build them, using 'emerge --update --buildpkg packagename' will only build a new package if a new version is available.. Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
