[gentoo-portage-dev] Can emerge be instructed not to upgrade a dependency?

Hi. I want package A to incur a rebuild of package B, due to a newly introduced USE flag which affects B. I wish to express this in the package's ebuild. I therefore DEPENDed A in B[use_flag]. When I attempt to emerge A, portage offers to *upgrade* the dependency, taking in the new USE

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Can emerge be instructed not to upgrade a dependency?

On 12/29/2009 08:23 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I want package A to incur a rebuild of package B, due to a newly introduced USE flag which affects B. I wish to express this in the package's ebuild. I therefore DEPENDed A in B[use_flag]. When I attempt to emerge A, portage offers to

[gentoo-portage-dev] binpkg doesn't pull-in dependency required by USE flag

Hi. amit0 myebuilds # qlist -Iv sys-apps/portage sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 I've binpkg-ed sun-jdk. I did so w/USE+=jce: amit0 myebuilds # qtbz2 -x /usr/portage/packages/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.16.tbz2 amit0 myebuilds # qxpak -x /usr/portage/packages/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.16.xpak