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> On Nov 17, 2014, at 23:46, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 17/11/2014 23:32, thegeezer wrote: |
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>>> On 17/11/14 21:01, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: |
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>>> Hi list, |
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>>> I was setting up an binhost recently and i couldn't found any |
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>>> information how to keep old builds. |
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>>> Usually, for example a newer version of tcpdump gets build, the old |
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>>> build will be deleted. Only different slots were keeped. However, I |
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>>> want to keep these old builds but I haven't found an option for that. |
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>>> Is it even possible to keep these? If not, anyone know why? if it's not |
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>>> possible there must be a reason and i couldn't think of anyone... |
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>> um, these _are_ kept until you run |
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>> # eclean packages |
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>> unless i'm missing something ? |
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> No, you're not missing something. The OP seems to be non-English-first- |
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> language and the question is poorly worded to a native speaker. |
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> He's saying that emerge overwrites the previous installed version when |
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> it rebuilds a package and he wants to keep it. The solution to that is |
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> binpkgs. |
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> You are talking about what happens to binpkg you already have, he is |
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> asking how to get binpkgs in the first place |
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You also have a tool called 'quickpkg'. With that you can make binpkgs out of packages already installed on your system without recompiling. This might be a good tool for you if you have not made them in the first place. |
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>> so you can still emerge -K old-apps/package |
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>> for an example, in my /usr/portage/packages/app-shells on my laptop i have |
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>> # ls -lah |
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>> total 6.8M |
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>> drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 14 21:02 . |
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>> drwx------ 76 root root 4.0K Nov 17 10:51 .. |
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>> -rw------- 1 root root 1.2M Sep 5 10:43 bash-4.2_p45.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Sep 26 20:52 bash-4.2_p48-r1.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 1 14:33 bash-4.2_p50.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 2 22:22 bash-4.2_p51.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 6 10:09 bash-4.2_p52.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 9 23:50 bash-4.2_p53.tbz2 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4K Oct 14 21:02 push-1.6.tbz2 |
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-Matti |
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