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 1PsnCi-0001Jb-7Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:14:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4B981C090 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D6941C00E for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so416633ywl.40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:59:40 -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=DPPl54yhLk4/0GWSRrTgqGnovylQy86vywDw5pl6MWk=; b=wrselTc6FdM86oiammlD0F5jpQTUekbcyCzy6TyGnNPb0a/pDrGo1QrkHCtp1IXklM rjQwlylKV2L0l3FtQHBGaN0KQdJz/sBcNnIiSpdZ4IfRqz8tcy6aaN+W17TkjRL04EZ6 qcT1oA28wkXp4fAu2giEmgaxJAQtDy6rzp2/8= 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=daC2ECtVPS/yWD013ep7u8vrKZMWBZgljisRpgTuleL/AGlCmEHhTM6J5JC12x1P1x Igu6hWDzNI/Bfc6sONono426OK8GT59m3oqly0Osgm2G22JM8tBkuYyK4Ax9DJRXmtwP LgamdjSDGFz3uyx3sjCCP+BJAXhyLCHDNImGw= Received: by 10.91.33.32 with SMTP id l32mr2945537agj.196.1298599180074; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:59:40 -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 w4sm194868anw.16.2011.02.24.17.59.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:59:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D670D08.8020407@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:59:36 -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> <4D66FCE3.6030005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 376753bea8f92f55cbd1a7f2009fb39e James wrote: > Dale gmail.com> writes: > > > >>> Besides gcc, what is a good list >>> of critical software to use guickpkg >>> as to keep backup binaries? >>> > > >> FEATURES="buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going" >> > I saw this (FEATURES="buildpkg") googling around. > > 1. What is a good list of software to use buildpkg on? > > 2. Once you decide those packages, where do you put > the list? > > Surely I do not wish to use buildpkg on every installed > package, a few or maybe the entire @system. I have not > found the answer to [1] or [2]. > > This is muddy, because supposedly the "profile" > is suppose to protect the key packages for --depclean ? > [2] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop * > > So is gcc protected somehow by the "profile"? > I think not...... > > > Still googling but not find any clear answers, > mostly cruft from years ago.... > > > James > > Short version, man make.conf for more info. buildpkg, keeps a binary of EVERYTHING installed. Now buildsyspkg only keeps binaries for system packages. If you have plenty of disk space, I would use buildpkg. If you have a lappy or are short of disk space, then buildpkg would work. Just keep in mind that some packages may not get saved. After thinking about this, I'm pretty sure I lost python once and buildsyspkg didn't keep a binary copy around. Just try to emerge something without python installed. :-( There is no list for you to keep. Portage does that. That help? Dale :-) :-)