On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:54:09 +0200 Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Iliev asks: > > > Let's say there's a new version of a given package. I'd like to > > make a backup, update, test and if I liked the old version better > > restore. > > > > What is (is there?) the "Gentoo way" to do that? > > Let's assume you upgrade from package/foo-1.0 to package/foo-1.1. You > can then use quickpkg to create a backup of foo-1.0, upgrade with > emerge -ua foo, and test it. If you are not satisfied, mask the > updated version in /etc/portage/package.mask, and emerge -uak foo > again in order to downgrade. -k tells emerge to use the binary > package built with quickpkg instead of re-compiling. > > quickpkg foo (or quickpkg package/foo-1.0) > emerge -ua foo > echo ">=package/foo-1.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask > emerge -uak foo > > I'm not really sure what happens with config files, though. > > Wonko Thank you! quickpkg is exactly what I was looking for. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
