[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: 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? You could mask the version higher

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/08/2009 11:20 PM, Dale wrote: 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? You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily remove them from the world file, unless they are dependencies of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a way to exclude packages from emerge -e

2009-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 08 August 2009 23:36:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I just thought of something. I can apparently just quickpgk them, unmerge them, emerge -e world, and then emerge the binary packages again. Or you could temporarily