On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:18:22 -0700 > Mark Knecht <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > > Thanks! - Mark
