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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008101853.13386.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimSqx6qc0QKGo9BX+RLMuR4rotjtvv=4Jh67sTO@mail.gmail.com>

Mark Knecht writes:

>    Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code
> tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the
> app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it?

Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command:

ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack

Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done when 
necessary.

	Wonko



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-10 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-10 16:29 [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? Mark Knecht
2010-08-10 16:53 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2010-08-10 17:22   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-10 20:17     ` Mark Knecht
2010-08-10 17:24   ` Mark Knecht
2010-08-10 17:56   ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-10 17:07 ` Neil Bothwick

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