Bug 196435

Summary:	Create packages from previously emerged package
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Sam Hostetter <shostett>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	194041

Description Sam Hostetter 2007-10-19 17:34:49 UTC

Using the same concept as --buildpkg, it would be handy to have an option for creating a package from an already installed instance of a package.

My example:
During a recent upgrade to gcc, my USE flags were configured in such a way as to prevent g++ from being built.  It would have been helpful to have been able to create a "backup" binary file from the original instance of gcc to restore in the event of a failure.

I suppose it would be similar to taking the output of 'equery files <package>' and tarring and zipping it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-10-19 17:43:49 UTC

That's what quickpkg(1) is for (see `man quickpkg`). I suppose we should add it to the "SEE ALSO" section of the emerge(1) man page and add cross references between the --buildpkg option and the buildpkg feature in make.conf(5).

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-10-20 01:44:07 UTC

New Revision: 8185

Modified:
   main/trunk/man/emerge.1
   main/trunk/man/make.conf.5
   main/trunk/pym/_emerge/help.py
Log:
Bug #196435 - Add some more references to quickpkg(1) since
sometimes people don't realize that it exists.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-10-23 17:28:22 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.3.16.