On Monday 13 March 2006 15:13, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in > > your current version but it available in the one you are installing, > > will be colored yellow and postfixed with '%'. > > Great. So something like the following in my cron.daily/portage.update > script should do the job:
Looks good, with the following caveat: > cp /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc.old > cp /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc.old > emerge --sync 2>> /var/log/portage.cron.log > /dev/null The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it syncs /usr/portage/profiles. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
