Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

[Nick Rout]

There is no meta-info AFAIK in a binary .tar.gz, so portage does NOT
know what CFLAGS, or USE flags it is built with.

Go ahead, use quickpkg to make a binary tarball of any package on your
system, then look tat the tarball. There is nothing to indicate USE or
CFLAGS.

If you want to install binaries you have to know yourself what options
were used in the compile.


On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 +0100
Ian Clowes wrote:

> A further interesting scenario might be to have a binary package
> available built with different USE flags to those on the target machine,
> and seeing if it gets installed or not.  I guess it shouldn't.  But then
> there's the CFLAGS issue as well, and I'm even more unsure how that's
> supposed to be handled.

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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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