On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Friday 12 February 2010 00:13:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>> One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get > >>>> the buildpkg feature to include the configs. It's easy at the command > >>>> line. Where's the documentation on how to actually use this the right > >>>> way automatically? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> - Mark > >>> > >>> when you use buildpkg feature the packages contain the virgin unedited > >>> configs as they are installed by the package and not any edits done by > >>> you. > >> > >> Just checking something: > >> > >> We are all aware of the difference between > >> > >> emerge --buildpkg > >> > >> and > >> > >> quickpkg > >> > >> right/ > >> > >> -- > >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > Volker is. I am not sure I am and I'm not sure that Neil was talking > > about quickpkg which is what I am using so far. The command > > > > quickpkg --include-configs > > > > says it includes the configs. That's what I thought we (you and I > > Alan) were talking about. > > > > On the other hand I presumed (apparently incorrectly) that the > > FEATURES="buildpkg" (which is what I think Neil is speaking about) > > gave me the same option but I now guess it doesn't. > > > > If I need to use quickpkg to save the configs then I think I'll do > > that being that as I simple-minded home user with no admin experience > > I have no in-place rigorous methods for doing __any__ backups. I just > > tar up directories once in awhile and deal with the problems that come > > later. (If they come...when they come...they do come, don't they?) ;-) > > > > - Mark > > This is how I understand it. If you use buildpkg with emerge, you get > the original configs from the source tarball. If you use quickpkg, then > you get the config files YOU created. If I understand this correctly, > you can remember it this way as well. Doing it during the emerge gives > you what emerge produces. Doing it with quickpkg gives you what you > produced. > > All that and I didn't confuse myself. So, I'm probably wrong in how I > understand it. lol > > Dale > > :-) :-)
no, this is entirely correct.
