Am Dienstag, 4. November 2003 14:51 schrieb Doug Weimer:
> 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..
But this only works if all the packages I want to keep up to date are 
installed on that one pc which builds the packages.
Erwin


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