On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:16, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:02, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 13:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > whole. Remember that Gentoo now also has support for binary packages, > > > along with building straight from source. The pkg_ steps are common > > > to both packages and source, whereas the src_ steps are for source > > > builds only. > > > > Actually gentoo has supported binary packages since before I started > > using it which is 2 years ago. > > that may be but chris is still right ... the src_ functions arent run when you > emerge a binary package > -mike
Basically my understanding is src_* should only affect things in
${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}, while pkg_* modifies the live filesystem. As a
result, pkg_* is the only thing used for binaries, while both are used
for source builds.
Donnie
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