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 1OlSiR-000321-5I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:24:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91F08E0B57; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C34E0B57 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so3866231ewy.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:24:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=jT5JG4d1oPkGiUopsNg5X6R2D/y+pBNi6F/26EqABnU=; b=KwyH05hO+pLr4GwvU1lGNMZRQBgJ8NnrIDrQWE0byRt5LHypsUjpktiDQf44YwCm+I rZ9vR3oNj/dFrwgreJWztcx4cwqkk31FygkJ3r6FAVtFr+6iXPg/5nNLyLLvBFmMABBl aQ4jyxmCDRh0c7aF+O2Hy5EkYYLltxpV2AF04= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=tE7doX4898IXwgMlLLDQBlqm8yAgVquu/PLVYRE2CRuW8YIdQjpXo00UICoTYj1odS QQbec/vBrbKlprjidAfXGdfvFAEA6vySqnvobSCPqe3833bzMGRJQ/wR+NlrexMv9dLx AVTri6wMYUBuJhx2XwStgcZ5rI1FkkaWd9qlM= Received: by 10.213.13.130 with SMTP id c2mr1223062eba.77.1282076693732; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-202-152.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.202.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm12765509eeh.5.2010.08.17.13.24.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:24:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:21:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Enrico Weigelt References: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20100817195332.GC6494@nibiru.local> 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008172221.53054.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cdeea01f-4737-4e98-a739-cda9cbe2f763 X-Archives-Hash: 781101b6ca26cce6c17feaead3bf0341 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