emerge -b without merge?

legobuff · Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject: emerge -b without merge?

With emerge I can use the -b option to build packages. Is there a way to do this so that the packages are built but are not merged.

I know there is ebuild but from what I understand that is a one shot process and doesn't grab dependencies.

what I want to do is something like : emerge -eb xfree gnome... to build the packages and dependencies, then emerge the packages on to a laptop.

I do not want to merge these packages on the build machine, 1) because they are already installed, 2) the build machine arch is athlon-mp and the laptop arch is pentium3.

Is this the right way to go about this, is there an easier way?

Thank you,

-legobuff

cchapman · Guru Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 440 Location: Fremont, NE

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml is a good place to start
also might want to try:

legobuff · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 1:36 am Post subject: Duh

cchapman, thank you for pointing out the obvious! and I am being sincere.

I swear I looked at the man page and the portage docs... but I completely missed the --noreplace option.

Thank you again, and sorry I could read :oops:

-legobuff

cchapman · Guru Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 440 Location: Fremont, NE

No problem