Re: [gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages
On 12 Sep 2010, at 22:13, Enrico Weigelt wrote: ... I've got a tricky task for automatic update script, which requires some portage magic ... The script has a list of packages which should be updated completely automatically, but *only* if they're pulled in as dependency (beginning from world), and others not in that list should *not* be updated. If I'm understanding you correctly then you might find `eix -Iu --only- names` to find a list of packages which are installed on the system, but not up to date. You can use `equery d category/atom` to see if the package has any dependencies. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:13 on Sunday 12 September 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: Hi folks, I've got a tricky task for automatic update script, which requires some portage magic ... The script has a list of packages which should be updated completely automatically, but *only* if they're pulled in as dependency (beginning from world), and others not in that list should *not* be updated. Is there any easy way to do it ? man emerge shows a way for the specific case if you are updating world: --deselect It basically removes items in the build list that are in world. However if you are running emerge app1 app2 app3 then the man page implies it won't do what you want. I don't know when this feature arrived. I run v2.2 and there's been a lot of update activity in portage this last week -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:13:28 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: The script has a list of packages which should be updated completely automatically, but *only* if they're pulled in as dependency (beginning from world), and others not in that list should *not* be updated. Would piping emerge -pu world through sed/grep/awk and parsing the output do what you want? -- Neil Bothwick Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
