Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 4/4/06, go moko <gomoko@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Are you sure it's not a dependency? Try "emerge -pD
> > libXext" to get a list
> > of everything that is needed to build and install
> > that library.
> >
> > dcm
>
> No, I've checked that. And libXext is just an example,
> but other packages (a minority) act as this one.
> emerge try to download the exact file that I've put in
> /usr/portage/distfiles. I checked this too by doing an
> 'ls -l' on the file that emerge try to download (by
> cut'n paste, to be sure), and the file is here, with
> good rights and nothing special.

I've worked this way before, and it is definitely possible to do.

Can you post the output of:

emerge -pv --fetchonly libXext
ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/libXext*
emerge --info

-Richard

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