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Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes: |
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> > Can I download any rpm, stick it in this directory |
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> > and it will install with emerge? |
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> No it just means that you are downloading it manually instead of emerge |
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> downloading it. This is because emerge fails at the download. |
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OK |
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> If emerge finds the file in /usr/portage/distfiles it doesn't try to |
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> download it again, and it doesn't care how it got there. |
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How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file |
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that it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or |
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should not install on a gentoo system? |
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James |
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