On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: > > Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing > > I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to add a package atom to > the end of the world file when I wanted to update world, and add a > package at the same time (xfce4 was the last time I think, a month or > so ago), and didn't want to do it in two commands.....
OK, that's changed then. The last time I transferred an installation, Portage really didn't like having non-installed packages in world. > In that cases I was adding a whole DE, so was also changing lots of USE > flags, so wanted an emerge -uDavN world to just update all the use flags > at once.... echo "xfce-base/xfce4" >> /var/lib/portage/world followed by > emerge -uDavN world worked a treat..... That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 -- Neil Bothwick "" " """ " "" " """ <-- random quotes
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