Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-27 Thread Grant
A little while ago Neil turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. Is anyone using it like that? What would be the best way to assure that your system always has a backup copy of your current version of a package available

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 10:35 -0800, Grant wrote: A little while ago Neil turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. Is anyone using it like that? What would be the best way to assure that your system always has a backup copy

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:35:09 -0800, Grant wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-27 Thread Grant
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:13:09 -0800, Grant wrote: A little while ago Neil turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. Is anyone using it like that? What would be the best way to assure that your system always has a backup copy of your

[gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-24 Thread Grant
A little while ago Neil turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. Is anyone using it like that? What would be the best way to assure that your system always has a backup copy of your current version of a package available before

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg

2005-03-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 17:13 -0800, Grant wrote: A little while ago Neil Who's Neil? :-D turned me on to quickpkg. It sounds like a great way to protect yourself from the new package blues. And you mean upgrades that didn't go smoothly?? Is anyone using it like that? What would be the

[gentoo-user] quickpkg bug??

2005-01-15 Thread Jadex
quickpkg /var/db/pkg/dev-python/pyogg-1.1 This line is supposed to create a package for this installed ebuild and I don't know why it isn't working... -- live free() or die() Jadex signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje =?ISO-8859-1?Q?est=E1?= firmada digitalmente

[gentoo-user] quickpkg and kde

2003-12-14 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I want to use quickpkg to build kde on my laptop and then install it on my desktop using the binary package. The problem is kde is an eclass, so how do I determine all the packages I need to build for kde? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg and kde

2003-12-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 December 2003 12:24, Tom Hosiawa wrote: I want to use quickpkg to build kde on my laptop and then install it on my desktop using the binary package. The problem is kde is an eclass, so how do I determine all the packages I need to build for kde? kde is actually a package, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg and kde

2003-12-14 Thread Tom Hosiawa
On Monday 15 December 2003 12:24, Tom Hosiawa wrote: I want to use quickpkg to build kde on my laptop and then install it on my desktop using the binary package. The problem is kde is an eclass, so how do I determine all the packages I need to build for kde? kde is actually a package,