Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-17 6:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant: emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Johannes Kimmel
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 6:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant:

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Arttu V.
On 4/18/10, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: You could try temporarily masking it: #echo sys-devel/gcc /etc/portage/package.mask Then updating: #emerge -e system Then removing the mask: #sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask I don't know of any emerge flag that does this in

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking anything. Dang - I already started the emerge... I'm surprised there's no easy way to do this... I guess just because you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 11:54 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 4/18/10, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: You could try temporarily masking it: #echo sys-devel/gcc /etc/portage/package.mask Then updating: #emerge -e system Then removing the mask: #sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 11:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking anything. Hmmm... clarification though... when you say 'kill something'... how would I

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking anything. Dang - I already started the emerge... You can still

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking anything. Dang - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread YoYo siska
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it? For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a way to now do something like: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles. not very

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote: Crap, doesn't look like this will work... After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get: emerge -pev world snip !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 1:11 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote: Crap, doesn't look like this will work... After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get: emerge -pev world snip !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked. !!! One

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get: emerge -pev world snip Total: 351 packages (351 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 5 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 1:09 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: well... you could use --keep-going and kill

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 03:54:38PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 3:49 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 1:09 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400,

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 3:57 PM, YoYo siska wrote: Will etc-update still prompt for all necessary changes for config files for *all* of the installs done, considering I did ctrl-c 3 times (glibc, and both gcc's)? yes, if new config files got installed, etc-update will show them (I think it uses 'find'

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 1:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get: emerge -pev world snip Total: 351 packages (351 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 5 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:29:12 YoYo siska wrote: You can still break the emerge (for example with ctrl-c) when it starts to emerge gcc, the continue the emerge process with emerge --resume --skipfirst that's what I usually do with openoffice and similar apps when I do a quick update and

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:36:54 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I assume you aren't specifying --jobs=[2,3,4,...]. Very useful embellishment of emerge: gets things done in half the time. --jobs=2 doubles the number of ebuilds being merged, not the number of cores in your processor :-O It is

[gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it? For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a way to now do something like: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Its not a big deal, I'm just

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant: emerge -e system -gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-17 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant: emerge -e system -gcc You could try temporarily masking it: #echo sys-devel/gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant: emerge -e system -gcc You could try temporarily