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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:30:03
Message-Id: kt5jmm$ucg$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating binary packages before updating them by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On 29/07/13 14:24, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
2 > On 07/29/2013 01:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up
4 >> first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many
5 >> important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I
6 >> have to manually quickpkg every one of them.
7 >>
8 >> Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on its own? That is, create
9 >> binary packages of every package that it is replacing?
10 >
11 > Isn't it --buildpkg?
12
13 Unfortunately, no. --buildpkg only builds binary packages after they've
14 been replaced already. I want binary packages of the packages that are
15 being replaced instead.

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