On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix
> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for
> my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from
> the system.
>
> My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at
> the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no
> metadata.  How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them?

There is metadata appended to the end of the file. If you try unpacking
one, you'll see a warning about extraneous data, this is the metadata.

> Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata?

What's wrong with installing with portage? Provided the packages are in
$PKGDIR, you can install with "emerge --usepkgonly packagename". You can
then unmerge in the usual way.

If the package is one that prevents you from using portage, unpack it to
the root of your filesystem, then immediately use the above command to
emerge it properly.

--
Neil Bothwick

Failure is not an option...it is integrated with every Microsoft product.

Another killer .signature. Is it optimistic?

Anyway, thanks. This will do very nicely for me because I'll be using packages
created by portage. However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about in that
last paragraph. Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no? Then how
do I get a clean unmerge. Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't think I need it for this.

++ kevin