[gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme --
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
On 17 août 2010, at 21:53, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx What is that you want to backup ? Your distfiles directory should have the tarballs, if you don't erase them. And you can consult the emerge logs (or qlop -u if you have q) to see what you unmerged. Florian (SuperFlo) CROUZAT / For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. /
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
* Florian CROUZAT gen...@floriancrouzat.net wrote: What is that you want to backup ? The (binary) package content files. In something critical got removed or broken by accident (eg. toolchain or portage itself). And this should be done automatically. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme --
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:53:32 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? Not that I know of. What you could do is always make a backup of all packages when they are installed with FEATURES=buildpkg. When you uninstall them, the last backup you made it already there. If you keep the backups reasonably pruned, total size will be approximately the size of /usr and /opt together. Or, you could just habitually quickpkg and package you think you might want to keep before you unmerge it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? If you mean binary backup, you can enable buildpkg in FEATURES and wait for next+1 updates, then you'll have binary package of current and previous version... If you just want to know what was previously installed, but don't mind recompiling, you can use the demerge package, which saves state and allows you to revert to a previous state (emerge back to exact package versions that were installed at a certain date and time). It can also use binary packages if they are available (when used alongside buildpkg for example). There are also commands to create binpkg of an already-installed package, if you have specific times you want this but not all of the time.
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 22:15:43 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Florian CROUZAT gen...@floriancrouzat.net wrote: What is that you want to backup ? The (binary) package content files. In something critical got removed or broken by accident (eg. toolchain or portage itself). And this should be done automatically. FEATURES=buildsyspkg -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:53 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? I always build binary packages when I emerge them (i.e. FEATURES=buildpkg). That way if I uninstall something or it is upgraded etc. I always have a copy). -a
