Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

["Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov" <ploujj@gmail.com>]

On 3/10/07, Chris <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
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> I will begin by stating my problem.  I have the source code (in
> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the
> Portage tree at all.  I would like to compile and install them in such a
> way that I can use them, and even so Portage recognizes them.

You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per
Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with
autotoolized software is like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software
installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or
upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do
that. You have to manage the software outside of Portage yourself.

> I have read the official Gentoo documentation regarding Portage, ebuilds
> and diverting from the Portage tree and while it gave me some ideas, it
> really didn't fully answer the question of exactly *how* to do what I want.

You probably arrived at this state because that documentation wasn't
talking about what you really wanted :)


References:
[1] - http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html

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