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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:32:40PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: |
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> > Use `quickpkg` before dangerous updates/merges. If something brakes - |
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> > untar the package. |
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> Doesn't work too well when tar's broken too. =) |
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How about statically linking a version of tar with portage. This way |
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tar cannot be broken. Add an option to emerge, --backup or something |
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similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. Then make a erescue |
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executable that can parse the command line to figure out which |
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package the user wants to be rescued from, and execute the new tar |
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command. |
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