From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE851381F3 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBA5CE0A9E; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6C85E0A96 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0047733E9EB for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.427 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.427 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.175, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.452, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nRKnvXhRKKEC for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A23333EA89 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V3lkO-0004l3-L5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:36:16 +0200 Received: from athedsl-355556.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.244.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:36:16 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-355556.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:36:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:35:58 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <51F6519B.1020507@libertytrek.org> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-355556.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <51F6519B.1020507@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 684d3dfe-b40e-4df8-aacd-beb593ec8fb3 X-Archives-Hash: a5a99768ef65d2e86f70f7d3ca75b332 On 29/07/13 14:27, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-07-29 7:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up >> first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many >> important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I >> have to manually quickpkg every one of them. >> >> Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on its own? That is, create >> binary packages of every package that it is replacing? > > Add FEATURES="buildpkg" to make.conf... This creates packages for everything and only *after* they've been merged. I need to create tbzs for packages that are being replaced, and only when I want to.