Bug 25154 – An "exclude" option with emerge

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 16342
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Roger 2003-07-23 20:24:34 UTC]

Sometimes (quite a few times) I have several packages installed that I have
modified and do not want to upgrade them with a newer package (or even after
specificing -U, emerge still wants to downgrade the package).

It would be really nice to have an --exclude option to /usr/bin/emerge so that
these packages will not be written over.

Usage:

I'm busy and don't want to spend all day upgrading becuase mozilla takes a long
time to compile:

# /usr/bin/emerge -UD world --exclude mozilla

I have customized a package with encryption options and wish to upgrade the
package manually:

# /usr/bin/emerge -UD world --exclude util-linux


Some options to "--exclude" could be:
- specified individual packages names
- a file containing a list of package names


Currently, I'm doing "emerge -UDp world > ~/emerge.list" (removing the misc
markings within that file to only include package names) and then running the
following script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Small script to compile emerge a list of source names
# contained within a file called /home/roger/tmp/emerge.list

{
while read file; do
        emerge -U $file
        done
} < /root/emerge.list

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-07-23 20:29:29 UTC]

either pin the files in your world file or mask versions you dont want upgraded in 
/etc/portage/package.mask 

[Comment 2 Roger 2003-07-23 20:34:29 UTC]

This is a duplicate of Bug 16342  

However, the original post neglects to mention my scenario. 

The resolution posted for Bug 16342 also does not solve my solution and is merely a workaround.

I think many basic binaries include sometime of "--exclude" option. (ie. fgrep)


On a side note, this would probably be called a "feature of a feature".  Allot of us install "masked" packages and a "emerge -UDp world" may fail becuase a masked package is installed and conflicts.  Maybe "--exclude" could also be incorporated to ignore the package.  ...or maybe this "feature of this feature" should be called "--ignore".. well, getting OT here.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-07-23 20:50:28 UTC]

i think my comment #1 and Bug 16342 address everything mentioned here 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16342 ***

[Comment 4 Jason A. Mobarak (RETIRED) 2003-10-19 20:05:13 UTC]

*** Bug 31563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Roger 2003-10-20 02:03:31 UTC]

yup. ditto. i would prefer a command line option "--exclude" also.