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 1Psm9O-0002Dt-M9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:07:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 430321C0AC for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E8EE07FA for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so799317gyd.40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:52:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ooaqSBzI6LdmHLQXQTImx4Sr4xjT2/LD1iVip79CyYk=; b=sdnY/Uwm2z5vWwp1gf1TEMGYVQUyfW/fdCf/305+tm9Yai+eqDz8s22wS0541x8Te/ Ycb2NCgaRjtM7R36heHa1DdfjU386BJu4R8exm05PnVVZRpboYg4iklHVmV4SxvhMGq3 mw7XDcHz5GO/XV1YEL2S3Moe/FlxhV9n2h2IQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EkIEQdKa5+OA/szDtZDORBBhC1+wlBi3boRbhd5/WJfdBygdJ+50YAtuITDR/cv/i7 B9p3bPC32ZVnE8rRBYvMW55WQjpPYHvwf+Jd9WJ5urPVS4KM2T732V5wzUjDz/BS3fG4 ILDYrcjTDx7cigGXooRUnjOoi8JhXEfZBHqsY= Received: by 10.236.109.168 with SMTP id s28mr2859644yhg.74.1298595133738; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i45sm41780yha.16.2011.02.24.16.52.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:52:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D66FCE3.6030005@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:50:43 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system References: <20110224193830.6613f652@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 736429b2050dd7db428f6cb287965f82 James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > >>> copy the gcc-*.tbz2 package from >>> $PKGDIR on that to the broken system, >>> > >>> then emerge -1k gcc. >>> > emergeing gcc now (thanks Neil!) > > One last question: > so I've learned the hard way > of the value of quickpkg. > > Besides gcc, what is a good list > of critical software to use guickpkg > as to keep backup binaries? > > > > James > > I have this set in my make.conf: FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" Yours may vary but the buildpkg part is what you need. There is also buildsyspkg but in the past, I had it to not keep some system packages. If you use either of those, man eclean. That will keep the cruft out. Dale :-) :-)