On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without > actually emerging ? > > Rgds, > -- > Pandu E Poluan
Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homepage of a package using eix. That almost always leads to some download link or instructions where you can get the code. mark@c2stable ~ $ eix gentoo-sources [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Available versions: (2.6.32-r29) 2.6.32-r29!b!s (2.6.32-r32) (~)2.6.32-r32!b!s (2.6.35-r15) 2.6.35-r15!b!s (2.6.36-r8) 2.6.36-r8!b!s (2.6.37-r4) 2.6.37-r4!b!s (2.6.37-r6) (~)2.6.37-r6!b!s (2.6.38-r6) 2.6.38-r6!b!s (2.6.38-r7) (~)2.6.38-r7!b!s (2.6.39-r1) (~)2.6.39-r1!b!s (2.6.39-r2) (~)2.6.39-r2!b!s {build deblob symlink} Installed versions: 2.6.38-r1(2.6.38-r1)!b!s(12:06:40 PM 03/30/2011)(-build -deblob -symlink) 2.6.38-r4(2.6.38-r4)!b!s(02:58:45 PM 05/04/2011)(-build -deblob -symlink) 2.6.39-r2(2.6.39-r2)!b!s(09:59:02 AM 06/24/2011)(-build -deblob -symlink) Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree mark@c2stable ~ $