From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OisJ5-0004rI-86 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:08:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14F5EE0ABF for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D806FE0A03 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF058C0.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.88.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 796774A8290 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-tuxonice-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008101853.13386.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: a9e1c20d-b773-41f6-9ae5-dc85af7c405a X-Archives-Hash: 8c3cb9238037ce03ccd1a20ad764bdd4 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