On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/07/13 14:24, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> >> On 07/29/2013 01:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up >>> first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many >>> important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I >>> have to manually quickpkg every one of them. >>> >>> Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on its own? That is, create >>> binary packages of every package that it is replacing? >> >> >> Isn't it --buildpkg? > > > Unfortunately, no. --buildpkg only builds binary packages after they've > been replaced already. I want binary packages of the packages that are > being replaced instead. > >
It is probably easier/safer to just use FEATURES=buildpkg and then do emerge -e world. From that point forward, you will have a binpkg for every version of every package you ever install.
