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
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).
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.
This has been released in 2.1.3.16.
