Re: [gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they > > change daily. To update e17, one must checkout and rebuild > > everything as portage has no way of kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they change > daily. To update e17, one must checkout and rebuild everything as > portage has no way of knowing what must be updated. So I have a script > with

[gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Is there a way to force a package *directly*listed* in DEPEND to be re-merged, regardless of whether it is already installed, up to date or not? i.e. if a DEPENDS on b, then 'emerge a' will actually run 'emerge b a' Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they cha