man emerge --buildpkgonly (-B) Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system.
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 20:51 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: > Hello I am updating a server I built some time ago using a GRP install. > I want to do an emerge -uD world, but I want to know for sure this is > going to work before doing this. Can I tell it somehow to compile all > the packages but not install them? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list