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Re: Preserving binary packages



n54%gmx.com@localhost writes:

> Just yesterday it happened to me that I needed to reuse my stronger
> machine to generate packages for my laptop (I cannot compile QT on it
> anymore, as it started to take way too much memory) and I landed with
> the problem that there are no packages (I considered it at the first
> glance as a regression) in the standard location
> (/usr/pkgsrc/packages/)...

I've done this sort of thing too.    You may find pkg_tarup as a way to
99.9% recover from not having saved packages.  It basically creates a
binary package file from the installed files.   (I think it's  far
better and safer to save the actual package.)

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