On 4/26/06, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to have the capability of being able to list some packages that > should > never be upgraded automatically (I realize I can do this to some degree > already > with portage), some others that are very unlikely to break from an automated > upgrade and thus should always be upgraded automatically, and some packages
So maybe this could be satisified by allowing user-defined categories of packages beyond system and world? Something like world, system, fragile, non-fragile? I think you could probably implement something like this yourself with a bit of trickery with the /var/lib/portage/world list. You could copy world to non-fragile, remove anything that you consider fragile from it, and then do an "automatic" update with: cp /var/lib/portage/world /var/lib/portage/world.bak cp /var/lib/portage/non-fragile /var/lib/portage/world emerge -DNuv world cp /var/lib/portage/world.bak /var/lib/portage/world A similar script for the fragile packages would let you update those as a group, obviously using the -p and/or --ask options as you like. Going back to -user now... -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
