On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:44, Stephane Pointu wrote: > Hi all, I have a question about portage behaviour: > > I have a package built in a certain version in /usr/portage/package > but this version is not in portage tree (no ebuild for it). If I do a > "emerge -kuav world" it takes this package but if I do a "emerge -uav > world" it does not. Is this a normal behaviour? Shouldn't portage > first check if there is an ebuild for it before installing the > package?
No, it makes perfect sense. When you use the -k switch, portage is in a position to find and use the prebuilt package, so it will. When you don't use the -k switch, it won't use /usr/portage/packages per the man page, so there's no sense in even attemtping to look for that package - as there is no ebuild for that version, it cannot possibly build it Your last question doesn't make sense - how can portage check for an ebuild that you earlier clearly said does not exist? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
