On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version -9999 but they change > daily. To update e17, one must checkout and rebuild everything as > portage has no way of knowing what must be updated. So I have a script > with 92 emerge commands in it... This clutters world unnecessarily.
Hm, --oneshot comes to mind... Anything against using that? > I would rather create a -meta ebuild, list all 92 packages in DEPEND > and 'emerge <metapackage>' will rebuild the whole lot. With the added > benefit that 'emerge --resume --skipfirst' will actually work properly > when a build fails (as they do on an almost daily basis...) If you put them all on a single emerge, --resume should work. > Is this possible? I've never heard of such a thing. I think paludis can automatically rebuild live ebuilds daily or once a week. However, not sure if it works with -9999 version numbers, or if it needs them as -scm. ~Henry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
