Thanks Myk (and everyone else that responded)..
The bit about 'keeptemp' and 'keepwork' in /etc/make.conf sounds like
the clue I was looking for. I'll have to see if it can be configured to
keep a nice logical source tree similar to what I was used to under
/usr/src so that my souces are always readily browsable without having
to unpack archives and apply patches...
For what it is worth, the way I prefer to work, and the way I used
to work with my BSD system when installing stuff that wasn't part of
the BSDI maintained source tree was to keep a copy of the original
tarball in
/usr/local/src/DIST/<packagename>.tar.gz
and keep the uppacked and (where necessary) customised code in
/usr/local/src/<packagename>
with a 'Readme.digbyt' describing everything that I had to do to
get it running (ideally just ./configure;make;make install), with
the installation always going in
/usr/local/bin,/usr/local/lib,/usr/local/man etc...
By creating a 'local' group, nearly everything could be installed
without root priveledge.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:27:00AM -0800, Myk Taylor wrote:
> The source is available in the ${DISTDIR} directory (/var/tmp/distfiles
> by default, I think). If you just want the source,
> emerge -f <packagename>
> will get the raw source (OpenBSD's 'make fetch'). However, I haven't
> found the equivalent of OpenBSD's 'make patch'. It's done as part of
> the ebuild process, but there's no individual command. To see the exact
> source that you'll compile, this might be a solution:
>
> 1) add keeptemp and keepwork to your FEATURES list in /etc/make.conf
> (emerge removes the source files after building and installing by default)
>
> 2) emerge the package (maybe suspending or breaking the build process
> after ebuild patches the source)
>
> 3) inspect the patched source under ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}
>
> hope this helps, and welcome to Gentoo
> --myk
>
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
> >However after going through the install process, the only sources which I
> >can find in an expected place are the kernel sources.
> >
> >So the question is, how to I go about making sure that the sources that
> >my system is built from reside on my disk, and how do I find them?
> >I really want to be able to access the source whenever I want (it is
> >the only way I find to work around the often incomplete documentation on
> >Linux systems) not just when I have an Internet connection available.....
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http://www.digbyt.com
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