On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:35:09 -0800, Grant wrote:

> If I'm understanding it correctly, FEATURES="buildpkg" sounds less
> reliable for failed upgrade recovery.  If you want to roll back to a
> previous version of a package, you're going to end up with what was
> originally installed, not what was working on your system right before
> the upgrade, right?

Wrong. buildpkg builds a binary package for each package before installing
it, so you have the current version and all previous versions, since you
enabled buildpkg, in PKGDIR. It means you can rol back as far as you like.


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Neil Bothwick

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