Re: has the sun set ?

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On 2015-06-03 12:08, Duncan wrote:
> Philip Webb posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:14:04 -0400 as
> excerpted:
>=20
>> (2) if I make a quickpkg of libmng:0 or lcms:0 , will Portage
>> allow me to re-install them if I want to after testing the
>> upgrade, given that they are no longer in the Portage tree ?
>=20
> Yes, portage should take that, provided you use -K (package-only).
>=20
> Alternatively, before you replace it, copy the ebuild from the
> installed- packages database (/var/db/pkg/) to your overlay.
>=20
> It's even possible to get the ebuild out of a binpkg if necessary
> -- open the binpkg in a text-editor, and while the first part will
> be a bunch of compressed garbage, near the end you'll find the
> ebuild in plain-text, followed by some additional metadata.  You
> can then delete the stuff before and after the ebuild in the editor
> (don't save it back to the original binpkg file) and save the
> remaining ebuild to a normal ebuild file.
>=20

An easier method, if you have portage-utils installed, is to use
`qtbz2 -s package-ver.tbz2` to split the .tbz2 binpkg into a .tar.bz2
with the contents and a .xpak with the metadata, then use `qxpak -x
package-ver.xpak package-ver.ebuild` to extract just the ebuild from
the xpak.

- --=20
Jonathan Callen

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