Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:17:06
Message-Id: BANLkTi=H1iXoEniT2YFdOaJGhv2LKTE4RQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same? by Yohan Pereira
1 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:02, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Monday 13 Jun 2011 12:29:27 Pandu Poluan wrote:
3 >
4 >> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
5 >
6 >> and x86 Gentoo?
7 >
8 > Well in most cases if the versions of the packages installed are same then
9 > the distfiles are same. But sometimes certain ebuilds are masked for
10 > different archs so you'll have different versions installed on your x86 and
11 > amd64 machines, in that case the distfiles for those packages would be
12 > different. Also there mite be certain ebuilds that install binary files like
13 > flash those would be incompatible too.
14 >
15
16 Hmmm...
17
18 But different distfiles will have different names, right?
19
20 Rgds,
21 --
22 Pandu E Poluan
23 ~ IT Optimizer ~
24 Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same? Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com>