On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: > > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something > > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. > > If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage automatically makes binary packages > for you. No need to add new support.
That would build a binary package for the potentially broken package. What it would need to do is build a binary package of the existing merged package. So a user can recover from a botched upgrade. -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF
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