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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: |
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> On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: |
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> > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something |
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> > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. |
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> If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage automatically makes binary packages |
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> for you. No need to add new support. |
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That would build a binary package for the potentially broken |
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package. What it would need to do is build a binary package of the |
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existing merged package. So a user can recover from a botched |
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upgrade. |
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David Stanek |
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