On Friday, October 01, 2010 02:56:07 Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote on 2010/10/01 02:36:44:
> > On Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:38:58 Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > Next problem, how do I force other computers to use the bin pkg? Unless
> > > one passes -G to emerge, emerge rebuilds the pkg and I don't want that
> > > as I have passed EXTRA_ECONF args and added a small patch to glibc as
> > > well.
> > 
> > man emerge -> -K
> 
> Thanks, but this is not quite what I want. This depends on the user
> actually passing -K to emerge. I realize I want something like the
> different -bin ebuilds in portage such as openoffice-bin or firefox-bin.
> Any pointers on how to create a -bin ebuild from the binary pkgs I
> get form crossdev ... -portage -b ?

portage has no support for changing PN on the fly
-mike