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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:24:59
Message-Id: 201008172221.53054.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:53:32 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > Hi folks,
3 >
4 >
5 > is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always
6 > to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ?
7
8 Not that I know of.
9
10 What you could do is always make a backup of all packages when they are
11 installed with FEATURES=buildpkg. When you uninstall them, the last backup you
12 made it already there.
13
14 If you keep the backups reasonably pruned, total size will be approximately
15 the size of /usr and /opt together.
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17 Or, you could just habitually quickpkg and package you think you might want to
18 keep before you unmerge it.
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22 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com