On 15 March 2015 10:25:40 AM AEST, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >> > I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that >> > it will updated but not depclean out those packages. > >> A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in >/etc/portage/sets. > > >Ok so I created this file (644): >/etc/portage/sets/dev-java > >I put a list of file in there, here are a few: >dev-java/log4j >dev-java/xpp2 >dev-java/xpp3 >dev-java/jaxme >java-virtuals/stax-api ><snip> > >I tried all sorts of --depclean syntax variants but it did not protect >the >files listed in the file from removal. I modified my make.conf like so: > >EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources @dev-java " > > >Now every rendition of depclean usage just wants to remove these files. >It feels like there is a working mechanism here, but I'm struggling >to find the exact method to protect these files from depclean, not >identify >them form deep cleansing. What am I missing?
Does the --exclude list need to be quoted? I'm thinking something like the following might work EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude \"gentoo-sources @dev-java\" " Bruce -- :b
