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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: Wernfried Haas <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:59:53
Message-Id: 1635805415.20060124195432@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots by Wernfried Haas
1 24.1.2006, 19:36:49, Wernfried Haas wrote:
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3 > 2 (already implemented) things you may find useful (unless you know
4 > them already of course):
5 > - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes
6 > it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause
7 > problems.
8 > - dispatch-conf does a great job for the configuration files,
9 > especially when up- and downgrading packages.
10
11 ... and quickpkg makes a quick backup of a package incl. configuration files
12 and modifications you've made since it has been installed.
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18 jakub