Bugger, after reading Sacha's last post and trying tbz2tool -split package.tbz2 I realise that the meta info is there, quite a lot of it!
You certainly don't get to see it parsing the file with mc I was wrong, my apologies. A tool to better parse that metainfo out of binary packages would be good. On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:17:46 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > There is no meta-info AFAIK in a binary .tar.gz, so portage does NOT > know what CFLAGS, or USE flags it is built with. > > Go ahead, use quickpkg to make a binary tarball of any package on your > system, then look tat the tarball. There is nothing to indicate USE or > CFLAGS. > > If you want to install binaries you have to know yourself what options > were used in the compile. > > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 +0100 > Ian Clowes wrote: > > > A further interesting scenario might be to have a binary package > > available built with different USE flags to those on the target machine, > > and seeing if it gets installed or not. I guess it shouldn't. But then > > there's the CFLAGS issue as well, and I'm even more unsure how that's > > supposed to be handled. > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
