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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282091015.456104.46.camel@paska> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local>

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:53 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always
> to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ?

I always build binary packages when I emerge them (i.e.
FEATURES=buildpkg).  That way if I uninstall something or it is upgraded
etc. I always have a copy).

-a






      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 19:53 [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-17 20:19 ` Florian CROUZAT
2010-08-17 20:15   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-17 20:26     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-17 20:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-17 20:25 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-18  0:23 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]

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