On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:42:29 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > From what I understand, which may be as wrong as it gets, if I use the > buildpkg thing, it stores a binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and if > I really screw up something, like portage, gcc or something like that, I > can untar it to / and rescue myself from my evil doing. That is what I > understand and have never actually used this "feature" before.
That's right. It came in handy a few months back when a glibc update broke things. It also means you can quickly roll back to the previous version of a package with emerge --usepackage =cat/pkg-version. -- Neil Bothwick Read the docs? What a RADICAL concept!
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