I have found that "touch"ing the module is safest. At one time I was removing things like lm-sensors, vmware, nvidia etc from the world file and twice I ended up with major corruption. I am not sure of the cause but suspect that the world file supplements other configs elsewhere (/var/db/pkg/* ?) and when they disagree ...
BillK On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 18:18, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:05:09PM +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Whats the best way to exclude files form a emerge -U world? > > I don't want to update my nvidea > > The following is not an all-in-one solution, but might work: if you remove > the nvidia entry in /var/cache/edb/world, then running "emerge -U world" > shouldn't upgrade that entry. If you however do a "emerge -U --deep world", > then it will probably be upgraded nevertheless (unless no in the world file > eventually depends on it). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
