From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4G0Mk9X013736 for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 00:22:47 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXTNf-0005mL-0s for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 00:22:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 32271 invoked from network); 15 May 2005 20:22:05 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 15 May 2005 20:22:05 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:22:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <4287CE08.3080907@gentoo.org> <20050515234110.GA7844@goliath.roninds.net> In-Reply-To: <20050515234110.GA7844@goliath.roninds.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505152022.36883.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 78cc6252-f67c-4570-a043-5ad0b29aa408 X-Archives-Hash: 474f078e51f9d4aefa5a3c0eca7741f3 On Sunday 15 May 2005 07:41 pm, david stanek wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:32:40PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > > > Use `quickpkg` before dangerous updates/merges. If something brakes - > > > untar the package. > > > > Doesn't work too well when tar's broken too. =) > > How about statically linking a version of tar with portage. USE=static emerge tar also, busybox has tar built into it regardless, all these are side roads -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list