On 17/11/2014 23:32, thegeezer wrote: > On 17/11/14 21:01, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I was setting up an binhost recently and i couldn't found any >> information how to keep old builds. >> Usually, for example a newer version of tcpdump gets build, the old >> build will be deleted. Only different slots were keeped. However, I >> want to keep these old builds but I haven't found an option for that. >> >> Is it even possible to keep these? If not, anyone know why? if it's not >> possible there must be a reason and i couldn't think of anyone... >> > > um, these _are_ kept until you run > # eclean packages > unless i'm missing something ?
No, you're not missing something. The OP seems to be non-English-first- language and the question is poorly worded to a native speaker. He's saying that emerge overwrites the previous installed version when it rebuilds a package and he wants to keep it. The solution to that is binpkgs. You are talking about what happens to binpkg you already have, he is asking how to get binpkgs in the first place > > so you can still emerge -K old-apps/package > > for an example, in my /usr/portage/packages/app-shells on my laptop i have > # ls -lah > total 6.8M > drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 14 21:02 . > drwx------ 76 root root 4.0K Nov 17 10:51 .. > -rw------- 1 root root 1.2M Sep 5 10:43 bash-4.2_p45.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Sep 26 20:52 bash-4.2_p48-r1.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 1 14:33 bash-4.2_p50.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 2 22:22 bash-4.2_p51.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 6 10:09 bash-4.2_p52.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Oct 9 23:50 bash-4.2_p53.tbz2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4K Oct 14 21:02 push-1.6.tbz2 > > > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com