Re: [gentoo-dev] how to skip unpack stage

[Grant Goodyear]

> I'm trying to adapt the blackdown java ebuilds for the ppc port.  I have
> to redirect the download to get the ppc binaries from blackdown, but -
> unlike the i386 versions - they're plain .bin files, not tbz2.  Though
> there's no src_unpack in the ebuild, portage still wants to unpack
> them, and bombs when it fails to do so.  Is there a way to tell it to
> skip that stage?  I can think of a workaround (either loading them up
> to portage/distfiles as tbz2's, or perhaps having the ebuild copmress
> them first), but neither of these seems like it should be necessary.
> Any ideas?

You can just create an empty src_unpack() function that will override
the original.

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