[gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system?
Hi, 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. 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. 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=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
Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system?
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:18:22 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 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. 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. 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=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 RTFM :-) man quickpkg lists quickpkg @system in the examples section. quickpkg @world works and does what you expect - tar and gzips the entire package as it is on-disk. As to what is in the quickpkg, it's the same list as you get from equery files pkg_name. Thereafter, enable FEATURES=quickpkg and portage will keep everything new up to date. Also read up on eclean, which helps to remove old quickpkg cruft -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:18:22 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 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. 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. 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=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 RTFM :-) man quickpkg lists quickpkg @system in the examples section. Yeah, my bad and you're right about that, although if you thought it was a portage FEATURE and ''man buildpkg' doesn't return anything then you wouldn't even go looking for man quickpkg. (Or I didn't) quickpkg @world works and does what you expect - tar and gzips the entire package as it is on-disk. As to what is in the quickpkg, it's the same list as you get from equery files pkg_name. Yep, already done for the system in question. The first pass quickpkg --include-config=y @world only built the files specified by the @world set and not all the deep stuff so I ended up with eix -Ic --only-names | xargs quickpkg --include-config=y which seems to doing the job, although it's still running so I'll have to count the packages when it completes. Thereafter, enable FEATURES=quickpkg and portage will keep everything new up to date. Actually I suspect that's supposed to be FEATURES=buildpkg which I use on other machines here at home. Also read up on eclean, which helps to remove old quickpkg cruft Yep, already use it. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com Thanks! - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system?
On Mar 19, 2012 6:13 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: 8 snip eix -Ic --only-names | xargs quickpkg --include-config=y which seems to doing the job, although it's still running so I'll have to count the packages when it completes. I personally would use xargs' -P and -n options to introduce some parallelism. But I haven't actually tested that :-) Rgds,
