Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] force binary only install
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:16:02
Message-Id: 1267722941.12958.1874.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] force binary only install by Jeremy Olexa
1 On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:04 +0000, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
2 > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:36:25 +0000, Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
3 > wrote:
4 > > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:22 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >> Alan Hourihane wrote:
7 > >> > Is there any way to only install binary packages and refuse source
8 > >> > builds ?
9 > >> >
10 > >> > I know emerge -k... with get binaries and if not found will build
11 > from
12 > >> > source, but I want to totally bail if the binary (and binary
13 > >> > dependencies) isn't found.
14 > >>
15 > >> Sounds like 'emerge -K' is what you need.
16 > >
17 > > Yikes, don't know how I missed that.
18 > >
19 > > What would be nice now though is that specified as a FEATURE=".." line
20 > > so it doesn't have to be implicit on the command line.
21 >
22 > Just use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, info in man make.conf
23
24 Nice. Thanks Jeremy !
25
26 Alan.