From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDACB-00010b-R1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:23:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j880IAfV012765; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 00:18:10 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j880EDiZ018117 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 00:14:14 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1C61CACE8 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:16:29 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:17:46 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge In-Reply-To: <431F56BD.60E8EEAC@hotmail.com> References: <4Kf1U-30Z-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <431F56BD.60E8EEAC@hotmail.com> Message-Id: <20050908121457.CCA8.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 0b7d06bd-571f-459f-914a-554504873c36 X-Archives-Hash: efff070006f03b0ae4878c8a43ca7e0d There is no meta-info AFAIK in a binary .tar.gz, so portage does NOT know what CFLAGS, or USE flags it is built with. Go ahead, use quickpkg to make a binary tarball of any package on your system, then look tat the tarball. There is nothing to indicate USE or CFLAGS. If you want to install binaries you have to know yourself what options were used in the compile. On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 +0100 Ian Clowes wrote: > A further interesting scenario might be to have a binary package > available built with different USE flags to those on the target machine, > and seeing if it gets installed or not. I guess it shouldn't. But then > there's the CFLAGS issue as well, and I'm even more unsure how that's > supposed to be handled. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list