From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:40:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB553898-3536-4051-BB1D-801FA75C035E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100912211328.GA25336@nibiru.local>
On 12 Sep 2010, at 22:13, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> ...
> I've got a tricky task for automatic update script, which requires
> some portage magic ...
>
> The script has a list of packages which should be updated
> completely automatically, but *only* if they're pulled in as
> dependency (beginning from world), and others not in that list
> should *not* be updated.
If I'm understanding you correctly then you might find `eix -Iu --only-
names` to find a list of packages which are installed on the system,
but not up to date. You can use `equery d category/atom` to see if the
package has any dependencies.
Stroller.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-12 21:13 [gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages Enrico Weigelt
2010-09-12 23:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-12 23:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-09-13 15:40 ` Stroller [this message]
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