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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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>> - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes |
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>> it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause |
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>> problems. |
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> You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through |
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> world and runs quickpkg on each atom. Quickpkg will drop a binary package |
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> in PKGDIR (which is set in /etc/make.conf). If you make a backup of PKGDIR |
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> and your world file, you have a crude packages backup which can be used |
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> to rebuild the box if need be. |
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Better create the list from /var/db/pkg/* , world file only own the file |
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explicitly merged, leaving out any dependencies (fex libraries). |
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The backup of the world file is still (and more) needed |
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