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| From: | Kobboi <gentoo@××××××××.be> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages | ||
| Date: | Tue, 26 May 2009 07:30:58 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1243323048.4545.2.camel@localhost | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] better support for binary packages by Philipp Riegger |
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| 1 | On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:54 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > The current situation: |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > Binary packages are (usually) stored |
| 6 | > in /usr/portage/packages/$category/$package-$version.tbz2. The package |
| 7 | > consists of the "real binary package" and the metadata (combined using |
| 8 | > xpak or whatever). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | No, the metadata is stored in a separate Packages file. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Regards, |
| 13 | Kobboi |