On 08/08/2009 11:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 21:30:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I will need to perform an "emerge -e world" on a system. However, I
would like to be able to exclude some packages from being rebuild
without uninstalling them. Does portage provide for that?
No.
-e is intended to rebuild *eveything*, not "everything except something".
You need to take the long way round and find everything in /var/db/pkg,
compile a list of everything there, remove the ones to be excluded and
redirect the whole list to emerge. It might even fit on one command line.
I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them,
unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again.
