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 1S9OJm-0004pV-SU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:11:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E983E09D8; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD8EE089E for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:09:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2710421wib.10 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:09:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jkTpK75us8C1na5dHA2NwN1wyuEsGGteGTpfHkqHKKs=; b=ZYHVg4A+1frrTguOwfmN/q888OSHNQ9kpvrPQh+SeMjk4BFYdkfC8cGyS73Ih71/45 PWoIyRdBTS9u42nwmBTJCl50Enc1Xj0FvWzXrgYXe+IsCNL4Unw4iig1YlIT6ovGQdNE GY8WsNy6/EHcGAWTUNhcyYIw8vxOZOPOnjgfqSISTvoHmODmTV3nJFH6iTHVGd8WAxM5 OpxCldOaJ8aLfSTHpVHn2Ll8fVtG51VbvPmXUkXCjYTFKUdUPE/BaJnOQx5Ziu7gFuSq MMkyXfiVbvLLIsjFMPHsvyeug6HmftO4jQAru6VwQShi7B8368k9+r4vblOJ3ykuG4xg 8S3Q== Received: by 10.180.89.130 with SMTP id bo2mr1365989wib.17.1332108596697; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-69-205.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.69.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j3sm32667268wiw.1.2012.03.18.15.09.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:09:01 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system? Message-ID: <20120319000901.7ea550ec@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8157a56c-cb76-4a37-8498-755ca588443a X-Archives-Hash: 7258f6cd5118dd388c3ac7783f21f33a On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:18:22 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I have a system in which I've never used the buildpkg feature so I > have no packages. The machine is completely up to date - i.e. - emerge > -DuN @world does nothing new. > > I know if I turn on buildpkg and do an emerge -e @world, assuming > all the compiling completes without error, emerge will create packages > for everything that's install. That however takes lots of time. > > I was reading about the quickpkg feature which supposedly creates > packages from what's already installed, but I'm not sure how to > actually run that for a complete system like this. If I put > FEATURES="quickpkg" in make.conf and run emerge -e @world, will emerge > simply make the packages for anything that's already installed, but > not actually compile the packages themselves? > > Thanks, > Mark > RTFM :-) "man quickpkg" lists "quickpkg @system" in the examples section. "quickpkg @world" works and does what you expect - tar and gzips the entire package as it is on-disk. As to what is in the quickpkg, it's the same list as you get from "equery files . Thereafter, enable FEATURES="quickpkg" and portage will keep everything new up to date. Also read up on eclean, which helps to remove old quickpkg cruft -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com