Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I wish to build a binary package of glibc-2.14.1-r3.  I don't want to
> actually install it on my system.  Just build a tbz2 for it to use on
> another system.  Is there a way to do that?  Portage aborts when
> emerging an older glibc and won't let you proceed, so I can't just
> install it normally and them build a binpkg.
> 
> 
> 


This should help:

 --buildpkgonly (-B)
              Creates  binary  packages  for all ebuilds processed
without actually merging the packages.  This comes with the caveat that
all build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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