Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Richard,

> >  Where do they go when you do that?  How do you use them later?
>
> They go into your PKGDIR directory (normally /usr/portage/packages).
>
> To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to
> emerge.  For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through
> portage-2.1_pre6-r2 packages.  If I have a problem with pre6-r2, and
> want to quickly downgrade, I can do something like:
>
> emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly =sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre5-r4
>
> This is really useful for large packages that take a long time to
> compile, like X, KDE, or openoffice.org.
>

thanks for this info... in fact i was searching for the packages in
the /var/db directory and i could not find anything...

Regards,
MC

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