Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates

[Ben Munat <bent@munat.com>]

Yogesh Sharma wrote:
> 
> 3.  emerge -np `qpkg -I -nc`  is my version of  -uD which I checks for
> all installed packed including those are missed by -uD.

Thanks Yogesh. I understand the difference between the commands. In my case, the 
combination of emerge and qpkg didn't find anything that -uD was missing, probably because 
this home machine is a fresh reinstall (disk died).

What I thought was strange was that, even though both commands returned the same exact 
list of packages to update, they were in a different order. I suppose that this was 
because qpkg is just supplying command line args to emerge, and if the packages don't have 
dependencies on each other, emerge is happy to do them in the order they appear on the 
command line. Not sure what would determine the order that -uD gets...

Thanks again for the tip though; hadn't thought to use qpkg as input to emerge and hadn't 
noticed that -n switch on emerge.

b
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