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From: YoYo Siska <yoyo@gl.ksp.sk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:30:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100710123039.GA1510@ksp.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100710091149.GA4904@math.princeton.edu>

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:11:49AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has 
> > something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me
> > via email.
> 
> Usually "is there an option..." questions are well-answered by "man
> <program name>". And in this case the closest thing from the man page
> is the -q option, which doesn't do exactly what you want. 
> 
> Cheers, 

revdep-rebuild --help
...
 -p, --pretend        Do a trial run without actually emerging anything
                       (also passed to emerge command)


it would basically show you what would be emerged...
-q and -P might be usefull to get rid of unwated output...

yoyo





  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-10 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-10  4:52 [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output Enrico Weigelt
2010-07-10  9:11 ` Willie Wong
2010-07-10 12:30   ` YoYo Siska [this message]
2010-07-10 15:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-07-10 15:43   ` Blackdream W
2010-07-10 16:22   ` Enrico Weigelt

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