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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions.
Date: Thu Aug 23 22:34:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010823223349.D7158@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EGECJALEMGCKNJACMHGAOEJICOAA.tom.landmann@upsidedownkingdom.org>; from tom.landmann@upsidedownkingdom.org on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:51:23PM -0500

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:51:23PM -0500, Thomas Landmann wrote:
> Is there a switch to tell emerge update to not remerge existing packages,
> but to only emerge newer packages?

Please note as of today (23 Aug 2001), "emerge update" is experimental and
doesn't always get things right.  That's probably why it is remerging several
packages that have already been installed.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-24  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-23 12:34 [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions Peter Kadau
2001-08-23 12:53 ` Thomas Landmann
2001-08-23 22:34   ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-08-23 13:00 ` jasonm
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-23 16:00 Peter Kadau
2001-08-23 15:48 Peter Kadau
     [not found] <E15ZySX-0007rR-00@cvs.gentoo.org>
2001-08-23 11:56 ` jasonm

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