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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:07:18
Message-Id: 4D66FCE3.6030005@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system by James
1 James wrote:
2 > James<wireless<at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >
6 >>> copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from
7 >>> $PKGDIR on that to the broken system,
8 >>>
9 >
10 >>> then emerge -1k gcc.
11 >>>
12 > emergeing gcc now (thanks Neil!)
13 >
14 > One last question:
15 > so I've learned the hard way
16 > of the value of quickpkg.
17 >
18 > Besides gcc, what is a good list
19 > of critical software to use guickpkg
20 > as to keep backup binaries?
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 > James
25 >
26 >
27
28 I have this set in my make.conf:
29
30 FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going"
31
32 Yours may vary but the buildpkg part is what you need. There is also
33 buildsyspkg but in the past, I had it to not keep some system packages.
34
35 If you use either of those, man eclean. That will keep the cruft out.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>