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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:54 am    Post subject: How to install a package's sources? Reply with quote

I would never started such a topic but forum search gives no result on source search pattern.

I need to know how to install sources for a package. I believe a package's sources are supposed to be installed in /usr/src folder, aren't they?

If it is package dependent my main interest is gtkmm and gtk+ packages.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the sources are downloaded by default to /usr/portage/distfiles
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But isn't distfiles folder supposed to be used by portage internally? And moreover the sources are kept there in zipped form. I know I can unzip them somewhere (or even download source repositories separately) and use as I want but I'd like to know if there is a way to do it automatically and keep them centrally (e.g. like /usr/src/linux sources).
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a bit unclear what you really want.

Try "ebuild /usr/portage/dev-cpp/gtkmm/gtkmm-3.8.1.ebuild unpack"

This will fetch all required sources and unpack and patch everything to /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.8.1/work.
After that, move /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.8.1/work to a place of your choice.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, my final goal is to have sources for gtkmm/gtk+ packages somewhere in the file system which correspond to the binaries installed and which I can use to debug a GTK+ based application I'm developing. The approach I'm using now is to refer to GTK+/gtkmm GIT repositories which I downloaded earlier. But I'd like to know if there is a way to install those binaries automatically (maybe a special USE flag sources or something like this).

For example Linux's sources are kept in /usr/src/linux and some packages use them, for instance, for compilation of kernel modules.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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FEATURES="installsources"
See the make.conf man page for details.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you! That's the thing I need. Although I do not completely understand what debugedit is and why it is needed here but it's trifles. :-)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

debugedit is a package (alas, not a very well documented one). However, you can just emerge it like anything else.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, yes. I've already done everything, although not understanding what I'm doing. :-)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The object files are compiled to refer to the sources in $PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Portage can use debugedit to rewrite those references to point to the /usr/src directory, so that when you use gdb on the built package, gdb will search for the sources in /usr/src, and find them there.
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