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?
The binary tbz2 package does contain the ebuild and any other information necessary for installing the binary package. qtbz2 from app-portage/portage-utils can be used to extract the metadata from a tbz2 file.. -- Bo Andresen
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