On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 22:12, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ~ $
>
That I know. But it's still several clicks away until I get something like
http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/tarballs/genpatches-2.6.39-4.base.tar.bz2
emerge can build the full URL from information in the ebuild file. Can
I get that full URL?
Rgds,
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