Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:25:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
>   
>>> Also, what commands would a person have to use to make use of those
>>> buildpkg's?  So far, I have not needed one.  < says prayer >  That
>>> assumes portage is what is screwed up to begin with.  
>>>       
>> All you need is tar.  You simply extract the compressed tarball over
>> your root file system and the package is installed, but not entered
>> into the vdb (so, it wouldn't be a bad idea to re-emerge it once you
>> get portage back up).
>>     
>
> Remember that tar doesn't respect $CONFIG_PROTECT, so it may overwrite
> your carefully crafted configuration files in /etc. Og course, if you're
> sensible enough to keep binary packages of the most important apps
> around, you're more than sensible enough to have a backup of /etc :)
>
> You may also want to consider keeping binary packages of some of the
> larger (as i compile time) not-quite-essential packages. Keeping binaries
> of xorg-server, kdelibs etc. may help you get going again more quickly
> after a broken upgrade or other borkage. If you use openoffice, as
> opposed to openoffice-bin, keeping a package fo that goes without saying.
>
>
>   

I do  make backups of /etc.  It's the only way to make sure.  I mean,
those are crucial.  I have used them once or twice.  That merge thing
sort of confuses me sometimes. 

Thanks

Dale

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