From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlX3R-00089I-UM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:02:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F11CE0909 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862BE088D for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.internal [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D1A164 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=5fdykPEjO+cmjoXHe2JvQbYZ2cw=; b=WnewmDTiQYDU11wyjTz3UlPRwWYe2vrjFqCjg44b42s4UqWe8TtCo/+m7iINMXeAwFdiaBypCaP+Hv1fBZRVH79iWKOM+i/XyVyEWyqLeWhwTuLzoUIcvBvHhniOq+OISxKyDmTI3htNu078OauOjpmxHwitX6MF+y2PHt5IDRg= X-Sasl-enc: IrqbjbKumwlmyLnBYOcUIKGI9433zpRnQRdqkRkHbvAp 1282091016 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-069-134-182-167.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.182.167]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B6505E590E for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local> References: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:23:35 -0400 Message-ID: <1282091015.456104.46.camel@paska> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1b81e10f-26ca-46eb-bfda-3467bd773b67 X-Archives-Hash: 4da360bb3da87ca4ff45dd508b548a18 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