On 08/09 09:48, Mateusz Lenik wrote: > Turns out emerge has this nice flag (excerpt from emerge(1) manpage): > > --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. > > Best, > mlen > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:29 AM Andreas Fink <finkandr...@web.de> wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 19:12:37 +0200 > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > is it possible to go through process of installing a not-installed > > > package from source to executable ... without actually install the > > > package - so the system as such is not touched? > > > > > > Cheers > > > Meino > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can use ebuild for that. The commands to build without merging > > would be > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild install > > > > This will download, unpack, build, and install the package into your > > temporary portage build directory (usually /var/tmp/portage). It will > > not resolve any dependencies though, this has to be done beforehand. > > > > The temporary install directory is called "image" in the temporary > > directory. > > > > You can also go through the whole process step by step, > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild unpack > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild compile > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild install > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild qmerge > > ebuild /usr/portage/my-package/my-ebuild-file.ebuild clean > > > > the qmerge command will install it into your system, so this is the > > step, that you do not want to execute ;) > > > > Cheers > > Andreas > > > >
Hi, thanks a lot for the info...I hadn't thought it would be THAT easy! :) Cheers! Meino
