Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack
>>
>> Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done
>> when necessary.
>
> It will, ebuild carries out any prior steps if they are needed. You may
> want to use ebuild ... prepare instead of ebuild ... unpack. It carries
> out any pre-compilation steps, like applying patches.
>
> If you are doing this because you want to apply a patch yourself, you can
> use one of the above, apply your patches, then run ebuild ... merge to
> complete the process and install it. man 1 ebuild explains it all.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered
> plant?
>

In my case, due to conversations on another list about a piece of
software that's important to me, it was simply to look at how
copyrights are set up in that program's source code. (I.e. - who's
names are named, what dates, etc.)

Cheers,
Mark