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 1OivzI-0004D4-Kl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:03:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEECDE0A6E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D5BE0B50 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwd20 with SMTP id 20so3453802wwd.4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=g2/w+/rUBr4rE57u6Q8OgaozKRpyNwV6ba/DJ3ROC+E=; b=qnEVQYgSSGj+U5i/+hND1wZldZ4KEU5gpR0wQA5UXN3xBSrXuqBVWIp1L3+LerL8h8 kFeyfH/tZ/p+zFz30Y7wdC5L0oCOZmO7ApbQK8VrKDyO3gjYqONow+Hv5ilSww0swqd7 9b24c4xNBmJGUS6eOcluirS0yS8KaIOG58QkI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=QIwnNiHbA0EmxBddN3+4qotOfxlT9ixg64kp5Af9IRwldvlR3HnAr9SY5hoyuq+c05 25+iZWQ5nwJAMUJcZPsvWAbv5cmg/qjF0ZkCtwpFBrkGAdYoxHsphC8t7yMmGqogBBme CHwxlnqbDD/i55sLv4Qo4wnQM17Z6Zq4RV+OY= 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 Received: by 10.216.234.93 with SMTP id r71mr4303285weq.104.1281471420286; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.49.204 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100810182244.2b90471b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <201008101853.13386.wonko@wonkology.org> <20100810182244.2b90471b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:17:00 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 29f2b37e-18b6-42b7-81a1-f572296a2343 X-Archives-Hash: b25b26d6d257aeb452e8a910478c43f5 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Neil Bothwick 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