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From: "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge building a binary from installed package
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:09:24
Message-Id: AANLkTimGwNA2j31BgvN-SW46JG-l-NCYqMTh34Ep3wIR@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge building a binary from installed package by Dale
1 yes it is, quickpkg is part of sys-apps/portage :-)
2
3 $ equery b /usr/sbin/quickpkg
4 * Searching for /usr/sbin/quickpkg ...
5 sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 (/usr/lib64/portage/bin/quickpkg)
6 sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 (/usr/sbin/quickpkg ->
7 ../lib64/portage/bin/quickpkg)
8
9 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
10
11 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
12 >
13 >> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Dale wrote:
14 >>
15 >>
16 >>> Hi,
17 >>>
18 >>> I think there is a way to do this but it's not sticking out at me on the
19 >>> emerge man page. I'm doing a install and want to build a binary package
20 >>> from my running system and install it on the new install. Basically, I
21 >>> don't want to recompile, I just want emerge to copy the correct files
22 >>> and make a tarball for me.
23 >>>
24 >>> I found the buildpkg option but that seems to compile it first then make
25 >>> a tarball. Can I get it to skip the compile part? Is that a option
26 >>> that portage has?
27 >>>
28 >>> Thanks.
29 >>>
30 >>> Dale
31 >>>
32 >>> :-) :-)
33 >>>
34 >>>
35 >> quickpkg.
36 >>
37 >> Which has been mentioned hundreds of times on this list alone.
38 >>
39 >>
40 >>
41 >
42 > That's not portage but it will work just fine and is what I am looking for.
43 > I just need to read the right man page next time. ;-)
44 >
45 > Thanks much.
46 >
47 > Dale
48 >
49 > :-) :-)
50 >
51 >

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