On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a system in which I've never used the buildpkg feature so I > have no packages. The machine is completely up to date - i.e. - emerge > -DuN @world does nothing new. > > I know if I turn on buildpkg and do an emerge -e @world, assuming > all the compiling completes without error, emerge will create packages > for everything that's install. That however takes lots of time. > > I was reading about the quickpkg feature which supposedly creates > packages from what's already installed, but I'm not sure how to > actually run that for a complete system like this. If I put > FEATURES="quickpkg" in make.conf and run emerge -e @world, will emerge > simply make the packages for anything that's already installed, but > not actually compile the packages themselves? > > Thanks, > Mark
OK, silly confusion on my part. quickpkg isn't a portage feature, it's a Python script installed as part of portage. Cheers, Mark
