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On 17/11/2014 23:46, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:27:08PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 17/11/2014 23:01, 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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>> short answer: |
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>> emerge -b |
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>> long answer: |
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>> read "man emerge". All of it. Gotchas await. |
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> Well, the man page doesn't describe why it can't keep old builds... |
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> (don't know what you referring too) |
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> I do know `emerge -b` creates binary packages, but i orginally asked for |
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> a way to keep older versions of binary packages. |
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You can't because emerge does not work that way[1]. |
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If you want to keep the contents of an installed package: |
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a. use binpkgs to create an archive of the package at the time it is |
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built (not at the time is is about to be replaced) |
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b. Manually run quickpkg on packages you are interested in before |
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emerging them |
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[1] Unless Zac added this feature since the last time I read the man |
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pages. Won't be the first time a new feature sneaked in without a user |
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noticing :-) |
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> Example: |
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> emerge -b =net-analyzer/tcpdump-4.5.1-r1 |
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> - binary package for tcpdump-4.5.1-r1 gets created |
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> emerge -b =net-analyzer/tcpdump-4.6.2 |
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> - binary package for tcpdump-4.6.2 gets created AND tcpdump-4.5.1-r1 |
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> gets deleted |
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> However, I want to keep tcpdump-4.5.1-r1 if possible. |
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> Is there a way? Simply emerge -b isn't sufficiency. |
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>> -- |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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