Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > >
I do make backups of /etc. It's the only way to make sure. I mean, those are crucial. I have used them once or twice. That merge thing sort of confuses me sometimes. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
