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 1S9OBD-0002uI-8r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:02:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B35B6E0A8B; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAECEE08C6 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so621943wgb.10 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9wXWtpLaD/3xoQIFLjmO4lTVGSb+ZsNzFmITJhaIefQ=; b=JPoLjJpny6MlpbqDy4eiuh1Z8fvr/+RszrIvzWGY5xpIEDlqudq+TRnjqd9Af4hKU9 xSTCRLuSi1MKFs3EbhuINAAMrkhmpDZpFPAzqzpavKFtBtlgCQdNaSSGxgP3Bv1khYyh NOT/oNozm10XLbfxC1IEg2fslRxHgfv2AinbuWhMTUtO+s3YQunBmoTldF/CW9PU2h73 xajeERoJDgA20ledcUHhJNPMKp6IiK5jxfknRwcXBYbGqYDKLdxxvzA3zo1dLMW7bVpp xiWu+lGg8poyP1n5eX/vMHEw0yltmLJoANfC44msvasyZXCXwucJxlSxcuOI/eQ/1Jww 4eMg== 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 Received: by 10.180.97.41 with SMTP id dx9mr14703983wib.9.1332108051158; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:51 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: quickpkg on a complete system? From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 635c519f-0440-4a2c-964b-3f78863d525f X-Archives-Hash: b871dc436f66142f9a38195289319adb On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > =C2=A0 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. > > =C2=A0 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. > > =C2=A0 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=3D"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 OK, silly confusion on my part. quickpkg isn't a portage feature, it's a Python script installed as part of portage. Cheers, Mark