On Monday 19 November 2007 16:35:17 Dan Farrell wrote: > > How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I > > suppose I could do "emerge --emptytree world", but that would also > > merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the > > whole system is rebuilt with the same compiler. > > > > Any help is appreciated... > > Maybe I missed something, but I believe the easy (and most correct) > answere would be /etc/portage/package.mask. Mask out package versions > greater than your current gcc version, and portage will refuse to > update it (or proceed with any updates that depend on the newer > version, so don't forget about having edited the file!).
package.mask is useless when you use --emptytree. -- Bo Andresen
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