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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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 ~ $