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 1EDAyA-000561-FX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:12:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8817ph2027756; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:07:51 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8810eTd032189 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:00:40 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so1159262nzc for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:04:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hj32ChYSO2ANyuPgJ3EvBGuO+L3n4xInWwWIqSDxBcx4iS+z4Q9RlvEYnr1C93Y1i07TGrF9G2RsWeDlnC2Ebj9ZSipyJz7Wa+KaMdi5xBdreOgWew0ffX83+U36ESU+j3f9pdFHuH6lF7ZU6HBiR7Wc7TYXL7ZuAe1DBLomQ3A= Received: by 10.36.5.3 with SMTP id 3mr1787588nze; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? ( [24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 37sm3064208nzf.2005.09.07.18.04.15; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <431F8DB9.2080807@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:02:49 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050804) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge References: <4Kf1U-30Z-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <431F56BD.60E8EEAC@hotmail.com> <20050908121457.CCA8.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050908121457.CCA8.NICK@rout.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25ae5a73-f743-4d66-814d-0081687eeb71 X-Archives-Hash: 00b87fb5fa38ef3022ce8586f3b0e635 Nick Rout wrote: > 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. > The metadata is appended to the end of the tbz2 file. I guess you didn't see my email earlier today which included a script that extracts the use flags. http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=112613409500463&w=2 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list