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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:08:07
Message-Id: 201008101853.13386.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht writes:
2
3 > Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code
4 > tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the
5 > app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it?
6
7 Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command:
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9 ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack
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11 Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done when
12 necessary.
13
14 Wonko

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>