Hello Dhruba,
Can you give a specific example please, from the command line?
Actually, I'm just talking about the command syntax that I would use if I were to use your suggestion of:
ebuild /path/to/ebuild postinst
Can you give me a real world example of the above please so that I know for sure what your talking about.
Thanks, Joshua Banks
Sure no problem. For example, to read the messages that appear after merging mozilla do:
$ ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.4-r3.ebuild postinst
* Please unmerge old versions of mozilla, as the header * layout in /usr/lib/mozilla/include have changed and will * result in compile errors when compiling programs that need * mozilla headers and libs (galeon, nautilus, ...)
This has the drawback that if there are any actions in postinst() other than comments then those will also be executed when you run the above command. The clever way is to merely read the ebuild. HTH.
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