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On Monday 29 Jul 2013 07:27:23 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2013-07-29 7:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up |
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> > first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many |
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> > important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I |
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> > have to manually quickpkg every one of them. |
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> > |
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> > Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on its own? That is, create |
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> > binary packages of every package that it is replacing? |
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> Add FEATURES="buildpkg" to make.conf... |
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That way you'll gradually build up a /usr/portage/packages directory with a |
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package for everything installed. Or if you don't want to wait months for |
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that: |
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# emerge -eB world |
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when your box is not too busy. My KDE amd64 box (not ~amd64, for the most |
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part) has 918 packages installed and the .../packages directory occupies 2GB. |
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Regards, |
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Peter |
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