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On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:42:29 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: |
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> From what I understand, which may be as wrong as it gets, if I use the |
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> buildpkg thing, it stores a binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and if |
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> I really screw up something, like portage, gcc or something like that, I |
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> can untar it to / and rescue myself from my evil doing. That is what I |
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> understand and have never actually used this "feature" before. |
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That's right. It came in handy a few months back when a glibc update |
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broke things. It also means you can quickly roll back to the previous |
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version of a package with emerge --usepackage =cat/pkg-version. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Read the docs? What a RADICAL concept! |
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