On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:13:09 -0800, Grant wrote:

> A little while ago Neil turned me on to quickpkg.  It sounds like a
> great way to protect yourself from the new package blues.  Is anyone
> using it like that?  What would be the best way to assure that your
> system always has a backup copy of your current version of a package
> available before emerging a new one?

A more reliable method, assuming you have the drive space, is to add
buildpkg to FEATURES in make.conf. Then emerge will automatically build a
package when installing a package. It also means the package is verified,
because ebuild builds it then installs from the package it just built, not
the files in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Bother", said Pooh, as he crossed the event horizon.

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