updating gentoo

doralsoral · 12-30-2004, 11:54 PM

is there a way to update all of your currently installed packages in gentoo. is this what emerge system or emerge wporld does?

bulliver · 12-31-2004, 12:06 AM

First update your portage tree:

Code:

# emerge sync

Then update all packages...

Code:

# emerge -u world

If you stick a "-p" in that last command it will only print what packages it wants to upgrade.

doralsoral · 12-31-2004, 09:41 AM

thanks for the response, is there a way to tell it to no update some of the packages because i have emerged some newer versions of packages so when it prints all of the packages it wants to update it wants to update to the older versions of those.

Zyrix · 12-31-2004, 10:10 AM

It shows old versions of the packages even after the portage update? .. well you could try to mask those packages then. Add the packages to /etc/portage/package.mask

Quote:

The package.mask file

When you don't want Portage to take a certain package or a specific version of a package into account you can mask it yourself by adding an appropriate line to /etc/portage/package.mask.

For instance, if you don't want Portage to install newer kernel sources than development-sources-2.6.8.1, you add the following line to package.mask:

Code Listing 6: /etc/portage/package.mask example

>sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.8.1

The information about portage should be available here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=3&chap=0