On 15 March 2015 00:25:40 GMT+00:00, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > > > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that > > > it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > > > A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in > /etc/portage/sets. > > > Ok so I created this file (644): > /etc/portage/sets/dev-java > > I put a list of file in there, here are a few: > dev-java/log4j > dev-java/xpp2 > dev-java/xpp3 > dev-java/jaxme > java-virtuals/stax-api > <snip> > > I tried all sorts of --depclean syntax variants but it did not > protect the > files listed in the file from removal. I modified my make.conf like > so: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " > > > Now every rendition of depclean usage just wants to remove these > files. > It feels like there is a working mechanism here, but I'm struggling > to find the exact method to protect these files from depclean, not > identify > them form deep cleansing. What am I missing? > > > > James
emerge - n @dev-java -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
