Thank you all for the help. The first answer gave me a hint and I came up with just about the same solutions as you "emerge `cat filename` seems to work quite well. One dieadvantage though is that emerge quits as soon as it hits a masked package or similar.
Anyway, thanks all. //Fredrik -----Original Message----- From: Doug Gorley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 22 januari 2004 02:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge a list of packages? Matt Wilson wrote: >>This may be a stupid question and perhaps nothing that's recommended to do >>but: >>Is it possible to make emerge take a file list as argument? >>I've been searching gentoo forums and the internet but I haven't found any >>solution. What I'm thinking of is if it's possible to pipe a file with >>packages listed to the emerge command? >> >> > >I've used; >$ emerge `cat package_list` >before, and I seem to recall that working :) > > > Take a look at this bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940 It shows a slightly different approach that's worked well for me. Thanks, Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
