From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:21:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008172221.53054.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local>
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:53:32 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 ?
Not that I know of.
What you could do is always make a backup of all packages when they are
installed with FEATURES=buildpkg. When you uninstall them, the last backup you
made it already there.
If you keep the backups reasonably pruned, total size will be approximately
the size of /usr and /opt together.
Or, you could just habitually quickpkg and package you think you might want to
keep before you unmerge it.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 20:24 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 [this message]
2010-08-17 20:25 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-18 0:23 ` Albert Hopkins
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