From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:11:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20051115T220716-80@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20051116093914.D8EF.NICK@rout.co.nz
Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes:
> > Can I download any rpm, stick it in this directory
> > and it will install with emerge?
> No it just means that you are downloading it manually instead of emerge
> downloading it. This is because emerge fails at the download.
OK
> If emerge finds the file in /usr/portage/distfiles it doesn't try to
> download it again, and it doesn't care how it got there.
How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file
that it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or
should not install on a gentoo system?
James
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 17:29 [gentoo-user] realplayer download security problem James
2005-11-15 17:50 ` Lucien D.
2005-11-15 21:06 ` [gentoo-user] Solved: " James
2005-11-15 18:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Catalin Trifu
2005-11-15 18:12 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-11-15 19:26 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2005-11-15 20:41 ` Nick Rout
2005-11-15 21:11 ` James [this message]
2005-11-15 22:15 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-15 22:47 ` Nick Rout
2005-11-15 23:14 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-15 23:35 ` Nick Rout
2005-11-16 1:42 ` James
2005-11-15 22:35 ` Nick Rout
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