[gentoo-dev] Emerge from a local harddisk

[gentoo-dev] Emerge from a local harddisk

[Viktor Lakics]

Dear Gentooers,

Is there a way to make portage install from a source code already
downloaded on my harddisk?

Eg. the upcoming KDE 2.2 upgrade, when an ebuild will be available:

I have a modem connection at home, so using 

emerge kdebase... would take ages to download (and the compile:))

I could download the kde2.2 sources (after doing an emerge
--pretend) at work with a high speed
connection, take it home and direct portage to use a local harddisk
as a source for compiling.

Or can I just simply put the source code files to a specified dir,
wher portage will see it and use it automatically?

Thanks in advance. -- Viktor 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Emerge from a local harddisk

[Parag Mehta]

You can alwayscopy the sources to :
/usr/portage/distfiles

this is the directory where  emerge first looks fo rthe source pkg and then tries to fetch !
you can out the sources here.

regards,

pm
--
Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Emerge from a local harddisk

[Viktor Lakics]

Perfect, thanks.

-- Viktor 

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:59AM -0600, Parag Mehta wrote:
> You can alwayscopy the sources to :
> /usr/portage/distfiles
> 
> this is the directory where  emerge first looks fo rthe source pkg and then tries to fetch !
> you can out the sources here.