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
