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author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-06-30 21:33:42 +0000 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-06-30 21:33:42 +0000 |
commit | f2d79bd71046d1b5b9a9c949c667739159ab5c98 (patch) | |
tree | 4d872afadd1e984371a0a3ce58fa67ba156b7d8d /man | |
parent | d7f6174284a3d97613c2f5b8cee48fccfd22dcf8 (diff) | |
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Bug #275945 - Add a new --avoid-update which tries to avoid updating packages
which possible. Thanks to Sebastian Mingramm (few) <s.mingramm@gmx.de> for
this patch.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13745
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index df054c9e9..a1dbcde73 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ option if you want to install a tbz2\fR. The packages are added to the \fBworld\fR file at the end, so that they are considered for later updating. .TP +.BR "\-\-avoid\-update " +Tries to prevent package updates. This may not always be +possible since new packages or new dependencies due to USE +flag changes may require a newer version of an installed +package. Furthermore, this option may lead to slot conflicts +(Multiple package instances within a single package slot +have been pulled into the dependency graph). It is not +possible to use this option in such a case. +.TP .BR "\-\-clean " (\fB\-c\fR) Cleans up the system by examining the installed packages and removing older packages. This is accomplished by looking at each installed package and separating @@ -364,6 +373,9 @@ A USE flag was turned off for a package. USE flags may be toggled by your profile as well as your USE and package.use settings. + +\fB\-\-avoid\-update\fR may prevent updates of installed packages without +use flag changes. Note that \fB\-\-avoid-\update\fR may lead to slot conflicts. .TP .BR "\-\-noconfmem" Causes portage to disregard merge records indicating that a config file |