> > If I'm understanding it correctly, FEATURES="buildpkg" sounds less > > reliable for failed upgrade recovery. If you want to roll back to a > > previous version of a package, you're going to end up with what was > > originally installed, not what was working on your system right before > > the upgrade, right? > > Wrong. buildpkg builds a binary package for each package before installing > it, so you have the current version and all previous versions, since you > enabled buildpkg, in PKGDIR. It means you can rol back as far as you like.
Ok, I was thinking it wouldn't take into account changes you make since it was installed, but the only changes should be in /etc/ and those would be preserved. I see buildpkg and quickpkg both utilize $PKGDIR. Very nice. - Grant > Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
