Mailing List Archive: How to exclude packages from emerge world ?

How to exclude packages from emerge world ?

Sep 23, 2004, 4:55 PM

Post #1 of 6 (2387 views)

Hi
I am wondering whether the is a possibilty to exclude certain (big) packages
from emerge world. For instance, when I don't want to upgrade from kde 3.2.3
to kde 3.2.4. I have allready searched the gentoo forum for a solution. The
only thing I found is to mask all version of a certain package
in /etc/portage/package.mask above the version I currently use.
for example:
>kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3
>kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.3
...
...

In my opinion it is a very unelegant solution. So I would like to know whether
something like "emerge world --except kde" is possible. I also didn't find
anythin in man emerge.

Thanks

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Re: How to exclude packages from emerge world ? [ In reply to ]

jokr2thief at gmail

Sep 23, 2004, 5:23 PM

Post #2 of 6 (2375 views)

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:27 +0200, Humbaba <humbaba@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi
> I am wondering whether the is a possibilty to exclude certain (big) packages
> from emerge world. For instance, when I don't want to upgrade from kde 3.2.3
> to kde 3.2.4. I have allready searched the gentoo forum for a solution. The
> only thing I found is to mask all version of a certain package
> in /etc/portage/package.mask above the version I currently use.
> for example:

The easiest suggestion I can think of would be to delete the directory
for that ebuild from the portage tree. If it can't emerge the package
if it can't see it.. Though that could get annoying because every time
you do an emerge sync it will put the directory for the ebuild
back.... I don't know of any flags to portage.

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Re: How to exclude packages from emerge world ? [ In reply to ]

Sep 23, 2004, 5:53 PM

Post #3 of 6 (2414 views)

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:23:41 -0400
Jokr2 Thief <jokr2thief@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:27 +0200, Humbaba <humbaba@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am wondering whether the is a possibilty to exclude certain (big) packages
> > from emerge world. For instance, when I don't want to upgrade from kde 3.2.3
> > to kde 3.2.4. I have allready searched the gentoo forum for a solution. The
> > only thing I found is to mask all version of a certain package
> > in /etc/portage/package.mask above the version I currently use.
> > for example:
>
> The easiest suggestion I can think of would be to delete the directory
> for that ebuild from the portage tree. If it can't emerge the package
> if it can't see it.. Though that could get annoying because every time
> you do an emerge sync it will put the directory for the ebuild
> back.... I don't know of any flags to portage.

well you could avoid using world and pick the packages you want to
update, or you could use pye (pick your emerge) from http://dev.gentoo.org/~strangedr/

don't delete stuff from your portage tree, it'll just get reinstated
when you rsync anyway.

>
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>
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Re: How to exclude packages from emerge world ? [ In reply to ]

lenroc at gmail

Sep 23, 2004, 6:04 PM

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:27 +0200, Humbaba wrote:

> I am wondering whether the is a possibilty to exclude certain (big) packages
> from emerge world. For instance, when I don't want to upgrade from kde 3.2.3
> to kde 3.2.4.

Why not just remove kde from your 'world' file, and update it yourself
when you want?

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Re: How to exclude packages from emerge world ? [ In reply to ]

jokr2thief at gmail

Sep 23, 2004, 6:09 PM

Post #5 of 6 (2375 views)

> > The easiest suggestion I can think of would be to delete the directory
> > for that ebuild from the portage tree. If it can't emerge the package
> > if it can't see it.. Though that could get annoying because every time
> > you do an emerge sync it will put the directory for the ebuild
> > back....

> don't delete stuff from your portage tree, it'll just get reinstated
> when you rsync anyway.

Is there an echo in here?

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Re: How to exclude packages from emerge world ? [ In reply to ]

Sep 24, 2004, 4:01 AM

Post #6 of 6 (2373 views)

> well you could avoid using world and pick the packages you want to
> update, or you could use pye (pick your emerge) from
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~strangedr/
pye is exactly what i searched for.
Thanks.

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