On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I think there is a way to do this but it's not sticking out at me on the > emerge man page. I'm doing a install and want to build a binary package > from my running system and install it on the new install. Basically, I > don't want to recompile, I just want emerge to copy the correct files > and make a tarball for me. > > I found the buildpkg option but that seems to compile it first then make > a tarball. Can I get it to skip the compile part? Is that a option > that portage has? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
quickpkg. Which has been mentioned hundreds of times on this list alone.