On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:13 -0800, Grant wrote: > A little while ago Neil Who's Neil? :-D
> turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a > great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. And you mean upgrades that didn't go smoothly?? > Is anyone > using it like that? What would be the best way to assure that your > system always has a backup copy of your current version of a package > available before emerging a new one? You can do this by always making a copy of the packages you emerge. Use the "buildpkg" directive in your make.conf's FEATURE="buildpkg" > Are there any types of packages > or situations where this method of upgrade protection would fail? Not that I know of. It's saved my hide a few times and not having to wait 4 hours for xorg to rebuild is nice :-) > - Grant > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:54:51 up 1 day, 1:32, 5 users, load average: 0.52, 0.34, 0.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
