On Monday 10 November 2003 18:48, Eldad Zack wrote: > look at the emerge manpage. when you merge new builds you can emerge -b - > that will make portage build a binary (tbz2) as well as emerge into the > system. > If you want to make a binary out of the filesystem you've got now - It's > as simple as "quickpkg package-name" and there's a manpage as well > for quickpkg (it's part of portage). > Just keep in mind one thing about quickpkg - (from the manpage): "The > downside is that the package will contain the files that exist on your > filesystem even if they have modified since they were first installed."
Be aware though that sometimes quickpkg does not work as well as merge-time packages. The latter are to be preferred. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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