Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:47
Message-Id: 20100211223221.1ae7a376@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg? by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:32:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
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3 > One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get
4 > the buildpkg feature to include the configs. It's easy at the command
5 > line. Where's the documentation on how to actually use this the right
6 > way automatically?
7
8 You can't, because buildpkg builds the package before installation (it
9 actually builds the package and then installs from it) so it only
10 contains the default configs. That shouldn't be an issue if you
11 backup /etc regularly.
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 Copy from another: plagiarism. Copy from many: research.

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