On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:07:40 -0800 (PST), Mike Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi- > > Could somebody explain to me how binary packages are > done in Gentoo? Are they just ebuilds with binaries > that have a copy script? >
>From analysing the /usr/bin/quickpkg script, here's mostly what they do : - Get the pkg info from portage (used for dep analysing AFAIK) - Make a tarball out of the files related to the package - Join both of them to make the binairy package Check the script for more info. Hope this helps Jean-Francois > Mike Hurley > -- [email protected] mailing list
