On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:26, Fredrik Wikstrom wrote:
> 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.
You can do (assuming you have a $HOME/tmp/ directory) :
for p in $(<my_list_of_packages_file); do
nice -n 20 emerge -v $p \
&& echo $p >>$HOME/tmp/success.log \
|| echo $p >>$HOME/tmp/failure.log
done
>
> 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
>
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