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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:30:49
Message-Id: 51F68A9C.4050304@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Monday 29 Jul 2013 13:07:44 Dale wrote:
3 >>
4 >>
5 >> If you set buildpkg in make.conf, you should already have a binary
6 >> stored. Example. You do a install with buildpkg in make.conf. From
7 >> that point on, when you do a update or new package install it stores a
8 >> binary package for everything. Then later on if you do a update and it
9 >> goes goofy, you can just use the -K option and it will restore the
10 >> binary it stored without compiling the package again.
11 >>
12 >> I have that set here and it should do what you want in the long run. It
13 >> just does it differently.
14 >>
15 >> Dale
16 >
17 > It's been so long since I've used this feature I forgot how binary
18 packages
19 > are purged. Do they stay in $PKGDIR for ever, until something like
20 eclean
21 > deals with them, or can you specify (where?) to only keep the last n
22 versions?
23 >
24
25 As far as I know, eclean is the only way to clean them. It's a manual
26 thing but I guess one could script it and do a cron job.
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)
31
32 --
33 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
34 how you interpreted my words!