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From: Joe Bormolini <lordjoe@bigfoot.com>
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel Robbins wrote:
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> Well, then you can "emerge --buildpkg xfree-4.1.0.ebuild"; emerge will
> build
> packages as it merges, which should be what you want. :)
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but i already built it! All the files and information about the files that
were built/installed is there... why can't I make a package from it? I, for
one, think it would be a useful feature.

anyway, is there more to a gentoo tbz2 binary package than just the files
and the info that would go in /var/db/pkg? I did a quick check of the
portage user guide and the faq and found no mention of it.

	--lordjoe