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 1OmmTz-0002Ve-Bv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:43:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D19E07CD; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500BCE07DD for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF0616E.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.97.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BDCE939A001 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:42:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --buildpkg and doing a dry run on a upgrade Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:42:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-tuxonice-r2; KDE/4.5.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C6FB126.4020708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6FB126.4020708@gmail.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008211342.35140.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 453d08e5-a4ef-4908-af5c-24409947a561 X-Archives-Hash: 2dd48c51c587140edb1e50353b9347a2 Dale writes: > I'm wanting to install the latest KDE 4.5 which is in the kde overlay. > I got everything unmasked, keyworded and ready to go. Since this is a > large upgrade and will take some time to compile, I would like to just > build the binaries then come back and install them when the compiling > is all done. The emerge man page says this: > > --buildpkgonly (-B) > Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually > merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all > build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system. > > The part that I have a question on is the dependencies. Will portage > be able to build all the packages when the previous packages are not > installed yet? My thinking says this won't work but looking for a > second opinion from a more "seasoned" guru. I'm no guru, but I'm very sure it won't work. You could do this on a second machine, or in a chroot, or in a virtual machine, and then distribute the binary packages. Which would be quite some additional work. I'm running KDe 4.5, and it works fine. That is, there are fewer new bugs for me than were fixed. Wonko