Thanks Alex, this is also useful to me. I'm fresh here. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Iliev asks: > > > Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to make a > > backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better restore. > > > > What is (is there?) the "Gentoo way" to do that? > > Let's assume you upgrade from package/foo-1.0 to package/foo-1.1. You can > then use quickpkg to create a backup of foo-1.0, upgrade with emerge -ua > foo, and test it. If you are not satisfied, mask the updated version > in /etc/portage/package.mask, and emerge -uak foo again in order to > downgrade. -k tells emerge to use the binary package built with quickpkg > instead of re-compiling. > > quickpkg foo (or quickpkg package/foo-1.0) > emerge -ua foo > echo ">=package/foo-1.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask > emerge -uak foo > > I'm not really sure what happens with config files, though. > > Wonko > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
