Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 22:12, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>> Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without
>> actually emerging ?
>>
>> Rgds,
>> --
>> Pandu E Poluan
>
> Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homepage of
> a package using eix. That almost always leads to some download link or
> instructions where you can get the code.
>
> mark@c2stable ~ $ eix gentoo-sources
> [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>     Available versions:
>        (2.6.32-r29)    2.6.32-r29!b!s
>        (2.6.32-r32)    (~)2.6.32-r32!b!s
>        (2.6.35-r15)    2.6.35-r15!b!s
>        (2.6.36-r8)     2.6.36-r8!b!s
>        (2.6.37-r4)     2.6.37-r4!b!s
>        (2.6.37-r6)     (~)2.6.37-r6!b!s
>        (2.6.38-r6)     2.6.38-r6!b!s
>        (2.6.38-r7)     (~)2.6.38-r7!b!s
>        (2.6.39-r1)     (~)2.6.39-r1!b!s
>        (2.6.39-r2)     (~)2.6.39-r2!b!s
>        {build deblob symlink}
>     Installed versions:  2.6.38-r1(2.6.38-r1)!b!s(12:06:40 PM
> 03/30/2011)(-build -deblob -symlink) 2.6.38-r4(2.6.38-r4)!b!s(02:58:45
> PM 05/04/2011)(-build -deblob -symlink)
> 2.6.39-r2(2.6.39-r2)!b!s(09:59:02 AM 06/24/2011)(-build -deblob
> -symlink)
>     Homepage:            http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches
>     Description:         Full sources including the Gentoo patchset
> for the 2.6 kernel tree
>
> mark@c2stable ~ $
>

That I know. But it's still several clicks away until I get something like

http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/tarballs/genpatches-2.6.39-4.base.tar.bz2

emerge can build the full URL from information in the ebuild file. Can
I get that full URL?

Rgds,
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