Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge building a binary from installed package

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there is a way to do this but it's not sticking out at me on the
> emerge man page.  I'm doing a install and want to build a binary package
> from my running system and install it on the new install.  Basically, I
> don't want to recompile, I just want emerge to copy the correct files
> and make a tarball for me.
>
> I found the buildpkg option but that seems to compile it first then make
> a tarball.  Can I get it to skip the compile part?  Is that a option
> that portage has?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

quickpkg.

Which has been mentioned hundreds of times on this list alone.