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Edward Catmur wrote: |
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> Is it possible to get Portage (or ebuild) to build a package for |
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> installation into /opt? If not, how much work would that be? |
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> What would be great would be to have emerge --optinstall package, that |
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> installs the package into /opt/$PV and doesn't create a vdb entry... |
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> feasible? |
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Possible, sure: |
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emerge -B package |
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mkdir /opt/package |
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tar -C /opt/package -xjf /usr/portage/packages/All/package-ver.tar.bz2 |
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Smart, not really. Using portage to install packages that are outside of |
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portage's control is kinda silly. If you want to do that, build it by hand or |
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use a pre-compiled package such as a RPM or DEB from the author's site. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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