[gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Hi all. During the last many months, more than once an idea occured in my mind, so I decided to share it. 2006-01-25T01:34 kalin $ dd if=/dev/brain of=gentoo-dev bs=1 count=3292 Do you think it will be good to have something like a snapshot of the installed packages? Something that will help

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Wernfried Haas
2 (already implemented) things you may find useful (unless you know them already of course): - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause problems. - dispatch-conf does a great job for the configuration

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause problems. You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through world and runs quickpkg on each

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Francesco Riosa
A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause problems. You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through world and

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Francesco Riosa wrote: Better create the list from /var/db/pkg/* , world file only own the file explicitly merged, leaving out any dependencies (fex libraries). Yes you're right - that is what I did last time I played with this. -- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing