On 3/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 3/14/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:50, Marco Calviani wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >   i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program
> > > > installed on the system, as a backup of everything.
> > >
> > > Just add "buildpkg" to your FEATURES in make.conf.
> >
> > That will work for new merges and updates.
> >
> > For current packages:
> >
> > quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/*
>
>
>  Where do they go when you do that?  How do you use them later?

They go to $PKGDIR, if that's set, else, /usr/portage/packages... You
use them giving emerge the "-k" option, or "-K" to force it to only
use binaries.

man emerge

>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>


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