On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> Again, I cannot see the 0.22 gives me anything I care about but >> there's no way to know until I commit to making the change. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > if everything works, why are you even bothering with updates? Why do you care > at all that qt3 is going away? > > but as I told you, the solution is quickpkg. > > And for quickly deploying packages: > buidpkg > BINHOST. > > have a look at man emerge, man make.conf
Volker, Thanks. I've not used quickpkg before but it seems like a very good short term solution. If I understand correctly I'd do something more or less like this? 1) quickpkg =qt-3.3.8xxxxxxx This creates the binary package and stores it in /usr/portage/package. I've done this step and the package is there. 2) emerge -C =qt-3.3.8xxxxx to remove the original. Easy when I do it. 3) emerge -pvg =qt-3.3.8b-r2 to get it to use the quickpkg version This all seems to work but it complains a bit about PORTAGE_BINHOST not being set. As best I can tell that's only for using another machine to get the binary? Is that true? Is seems from these commands that it's finding the one I just made. Or is there a format for doing this and pointing at a local directory? firefly ~ # emerge -pvg =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! PORTAGE_BINHOST unset, but use is requested. ... done! [binary R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 USE="cups ipv6 mysql opengl -debug -doc -examples (-firebird) -immqt -immqt-bc -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama" Total: 1 package (1 reinstall, 1 binary), Size of downloads: 0 kB firefly ~ # emerge -pv =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 USE="cups ipv6 mysql opengl -debug -doc -examples (-firebird) -immqt -immqt-bc -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB firefly ~ # Thanks, Mark
