On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Hi All, > Each time i run "emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated > each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like > gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. > Is there any way i can avoid he same ?
Perhaps you mean 'emerge -avuND world' instead of gnome ? :-) You can temporarily create a file in /etc/portage/package.mask/ to block out some big ebuilds. Say you want to leave the latest gcc and glibc for later, then put this in it: >=sys-devel/gcc-4.2.2 >=sys-libs/glibc-2.5.1 Do your emerge world, those versions will be ignored. Later on you when you have time can delete this temp file and rerun emerge world. There are several ways you could accomplish this result, the above is what I tend to do -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
