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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:49:02
Message-Id: 20121206094426.6a2f8482@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] continue an installation by Willie WY Wong
1 On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:45:10 +0100
2 Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > Hi list,
5 >
6 > Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase
7 > went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation
8 > phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage
9 > to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in
10 > /var/tmp/portage) directly without having to redo the compiling
11 > phase?
12
13 not with emerge, but you can use the lower-level command ebuild for
14 that.
15
16 portage & ebuild are analogous to yum & rpm or to apt* and dpkg
17
18 man ebuild for more info
19
20 >
21 > Case in point:
22 >
23 > I just tried to update dev-lib/boost to 1.52. The compilation went
24 > without a hitch, but the installation died because of file collision
25 > against (I think) boost-1.49.0-r1000. Now that the colliding files are
26 > no longer there, is there a way to tell portage to go ahead an install
27 > boost-1.52 from the compiled sources in /var/tmp/portage ?
28 >
29 > Thanks,
30 >
31 > W
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35 --
36 Alan McKinnon
37 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation Kevin Brandstatter <kjbrandstatter@×××××.com>