Re: [gentoo-server] Quick restores

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

Jason Stubbs wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Robert Larson wrote:
>>
>>> If I understand you correctly, then this may help:
>>> # obtain a list of installed packages
>>> emerge -vep world | grep ^'\[ebuild ' | while read a; do
>>>     # extract the package name
>>>     pkg=$(echo $a | cut -d']' -f2 | awk '{print $1}')
>>>     # build a binary of the package
>>>     quickpkg "/var/db/pkg/${pkg}"
>>> done
>>
>>
>> I came up with this (yes, granted it is tied to the file-system layout
>> but
>> its damn fast!):
>>
>>   find /var/db/pkg -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -print -exec quickpkg {} \;
>
>
> I was thinking about extending quickpkg to support syntax like:
> quickpkg [--deep [--build-deps] ] [--overwrite] <atom>|<target>
>
> <atom> is one or more regular atoms. <target> is any supported target
> (currently "world" or "system"). --deep would recursively make packages
> of runtime  dependencies. --build-deps would include build time
> dependencies (which   of course aren't actually needed). --overwrite
> would cause packages to be created even if they already exist in PKGDIR.
>
> Can I take this thread as an expression of interest in the above?
> Anything missing or would be better done differently?

Yes!

And, but not sure how, adding something like --update and --update-only will save some cpu cycles.
Actually, may be you are right. --overwrite might be better, but I was thinking about emerge syntax.

Kalin.

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