On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 23:35, Brent L Johnson wrote:
> The mtools (like mcopy, etc) do not come with the default install.  They
> come with the mtools package in app-admin/tools and are included with
> CD2 of the LiveCD set.  How can I install these?  I copied all the CD2
> packages to /usr/portage/packages and I tried running "emerge -k
> app-admin/mtools" but its trying to go download the package from the
> internet.
> 
> How can I force it to install from the local disk?

Check to be sure you copied the package correctly. It should be directly
in /usr/portage/packages/All/ as $package-$version.tbz2.

An emerge -kp $package should show binary instead of ebuild on the left
side of the term.

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