On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:01 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I want to know what, if any, information about the package's build
environment is stored in the package binary and what, if any, of the
information is used by portage/emerge to decide when to use a binary
package.
I've got
Since I'm on a slowish system, I'm thinking of building and using binary
packges through emerge. However, I'd like to know what, if any,
meta-information is in the packages.
For any out there that are unclear, I'm not talking about binary (*-bin)
ebuilds, I'm refering to binary packages
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=2chap=3
By definition, prebuilt packages are compiled binaries (if there ever
were a redundant phrase...). Compiled programs use the CHOST they're
compiled with. If it's a generic one that your system supports, then
it'll work on your
On Sunday 29 May 2005 04:38 pm, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]
top-posted, and I had to fix it:
On 5/29/05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I'm on a slowish system, I'm thinking of building and using
binary packges through emerge. However, I'd like to know what, if
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