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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"