On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:25:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Also, what commands would a person have to use to make use of those > > buildpkg's? So far, I have not needed one. < says prayer > That > > assumes portage is what is screwed up to begin with. > > All you need is tar. You simply extract the compressed tarball over > your root file system and the package is installed, but not entered > into the vdb (so, it wouldn't be a bad idea to re-emerge it once you > get portage back up).
Remember that tar doesn't respect $CONFIG_PROTECT, so it may overwrite your carefully crafted configuration files in /etc. Og course, if you're sensible enough to keep binary packages of the most important apps around, you're more than sensible enough to have a backup of /etc :) You may also want to consider keeping binary packages of some of the larger (as i compile time) not-quite-essential packages. Keeping binaries of xorg-server, kdelibs etc. may help you get going again more quickly after a broken upgrade or other borkage. If you use openoffice, as opposed to openoffice-bin, keeping a package fo that goes without saying. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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