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 runs quickpkg on each atom. Quickpkg will drop a binary package > in PKGDIR (which is set in /etc/make.conf). If you make a backup of PKGDIR > and your world file, you have a crude packages backup which can be used > to rebuild the box if need be. >
Better create the list from /var/db/pkg/* , world file only own the file explicitly merged, leaving out any dependencies (fex libraries). The backup of the world file is still (and more) needed -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
