On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:56:54PM -0400, David Stanek wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: > > > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something > > > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg. > > > > If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage automatically makes binary packages > > for you. No need to add new support. > > That would build a binary package for the potentially broken > package. What it would need to do is build a binary package of the > existing merged package. So a user can recover from a botched > upgrade.
Actually a very simple safe-emerge script can be easily written. It could first do an 'emerge --buildpkg' on the existing merged package, if that package was already merged. The other part would be to create a statically linked version of tar that can be used in a recovery situation. -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF
pgpvGsYgziGCW.pgp
Description: PGP signature
