> On Nov 17, 2014, at 23:46, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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
You also have a tool called 'quickpkg'. With that you can make binpkgs out of packages already installed on your system without recompiling. This might be a good tool for you if you have not made them 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 -- -Matti
