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On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: |
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> > That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary |
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> > packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, |
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> > which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. |
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> Portage binary packages aren't actually .tar.gz archives? |
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No, they are tar.bz2 archives with some metadata appended. without that |
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metadata, portage cannot create an entry in the package database. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats |
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troublesome. - Isaac Asimov |
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