On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it? > > For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a > way to now do something like: > > emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile > everything *but* gcc)? > > Its not a big deal, I'm just curious... > > -- > > Charles >
You can do something like: emerge -pe world | sed -e "/^.ebuild/ ! d; s/.*] /=/; s/ .*//; " > list ... edit "list" and remove anything you don't want to reinstall ... emerge -av1 `cat list` the -1 (or --oneshot), means that the packages won't be added to the world file (they would normally because you are listing them all on the commandline) yoyo
