Hi Richard, > > Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? > > They go into your PKGDIR directory (normally /usr/portage/packages). > > To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to > emerge. For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through > portage-2.1_pre6-r2 packages. If I have a problem with pre6-r2, and > want to quickly downgrade, I can do something like: > > emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly =sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre5-r4 > > This is really useful for large packages that take a long time to > compile, like X, KDE, or openoffice.org. >
thanks for this info... in fact i was searching for the packages in the /var/db directory and i could not find anything... Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
