Bug 8767 – portage archive patch

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) 2002-10-04 19:57:34 UTC]

This is the first of hopefully many patches to give portage the "self-healing" 
ability of sorceror linux.
It adds an "archive" flag to FEATURES that makes an archive (the same way that 
dyn_package does) but puts it in /db/pkg/.

[Comment 1 Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) 2002-10-04 19:58:51 UTC]

Created attachment 4418 [details, diff]
Adds dyn_archive to ebuild.sh, and adds a check in dyn_install for 'archive' in FEATURES

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-05 18:00:45 UTC]

What's the difference between this and 'emerge -b' ?

[Comment 3 Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) 2002-10-05 18:50:40 UTC]

This is the first step toward automatically archiving images for use in 
recovery (or self-healing). If the user had to use a flag every time they 
probably wouldn't, this gives the option of automatically archiving based on 
the FEATURE flag. Also, this puts the image in the build-info dir which goes 
to /var/db/pkg.. so that it can be used for repairing rather than -b which is 
used for deploying elsewhere and writes to /usr/portage/packages
(perhaps there should be a common place for both of them), personally i hate 
all the crap portage writes to /usr, /usr is for programs, now thousands of 
tars :)

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2002-10-05 19:55:16 UTC]

basically it would be -b but placing the pkg in another place (maybe 
/var/db/pkg/<cat>/<pgk>/file) and then used later if 'self-healing' is wanted 
... 

[Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-05 21:36:49 UTC]

PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages

can be changed in make.conf, but I kinda get your point.
A constant feature as opposed to an explicit flag.

[Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 03:02:05 UTC]

portage-2.0-41

FEATURES="buildpkg"
will cause --buildpkg to be set always.