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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:47:52
Message-Id: 4B749FEA.5020208@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg? by Mark Knecht
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Friday 12 February 2010 00:13:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>> One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get
7 >>>> the buildpkg feature to include the configs. It's easy at the command
8 >>>> line. Where's the documentation on how to actually use this the right
9 >>>> way automatically?
10 >>>>
11 >>>>
12 >>>>
13 >>>> - Mark
14 >>>>
15 >>> when you use buildpkg feature the packages contain the virgin unedited
16 >>> configs as they are installed by the package and not any edits done by
17 >>> you.
18 >>>
19 >> Just checking something:
20 >>
21 >> We are all aware of the difference between
22 >>
23 >> emerge --buildpkg
24 >>
25 >> and
26 >>
27 >> quickpkg
28 >>
29 >> right/
30 >>
31 >> --
32 >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
33 >>
34 > Volker is. I am not sure I am and I'm not sure that Neil was talking
35 > about quickpkg which is what I am using so far. The command
36 >
37 > quickpkg --include-configs
38 >
39 > says it includes the configs. That's what I thought we (you and I
40 > Alan) were talking about.
41 >
42 > On the other hand I presumed (apparently incorrectly) that the
43 > FEATURES="buildpkg" (which is what I think Neil is speaking about)
44 > gave me the same option but I now guess it doesn't.
45 >
46 > If I need to use quickpkg to save the configs then I think I'll do
47 > that being that as I simple-minded home user with no admin experience
48 > I have no in-place rigorous methods for doing __any__ backups. I just
49 > tar up directories once in awhile and deal with the problems that come
50 > later. (If they come...when they come...they do come, don't they?) ;-)
51 >
52 > - Mark
53 >
54 >
55
56 This is how I understand it. If you use buildpkg with emerge, you get
57 the original configs from the source tarball. If you use quickpkg, then
58 you get the config files YOU created. If I understand this correctly,
59 you can remember it this way as well. Doing it during the emerge gives
60 you what emerge produces. Doing it with quickpkg gives you what you
61 produced.
62
63 All that and I didn't confuse myself. So, I'm probably wrong in how I
64 understand it. lol
65
66 Dale
67
68 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>