On Sunday 15 May 2005 07:41 pm, david stanek wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:32:40PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > > > Use `quickpkg` before dangerous updates/merges. If something brakes - > > > untar the package. > > > > Doesn't work too well when tar's broken too. =) > > How about statically linking a version of tar with portage.
USE=static emerge tar also, busybox has tar built into it regardless, all these are side roads -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list