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On Thursday 16 September 2004 11:53 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> How do I use portage to just get and "leave" a copy of a source tree for an
> insalled package?
>

man ebuild


Specifically, look at the 'fetch' and 'unpack' commands.


'ebuild <package> fetch' - will get the source tarball, into
'/usr/portage/distfiles'.

'ebuild <package> unpack' - will unpack the source tree into
'/var/tmp/portage/<package>/work/'.


Cheers,

Corey


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quoth the David Corbin:
> How do I use portage to just get and "leave" a copy of a source tree for an
> installed package?
>
> Thanks
> David

I am not sure if that is directly possible but you can run "emerge -f
package' (--fetchonly) and portage will download the source tarball
to /usr/portage/distfiles

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Darren Kirby wrote:
| quoth the David Corbin:
|
|>How do I use portage to just get and "leave" a copy of a source tree
for an
|>installed package?
|>
|>Thanks
|>David
|
|
| I am not sure if that is directly possible but you can run "emerge -f
| package' (--fetchonly) and portage will download the source tarball
| to /usr/portage/distfiles
|
| -d

Yes, it's possible via noclean in FEATURES. There's also keepwork and
keeptemp. Check out the make.conf manual page.

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