On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:32:40 I wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:10:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > As long as the source file is still in $DISTDIR, you don't need to do > > anything. > > You could put the file somewhere; personal web space, github > > etc, and change the SRC_URI to point to it, but that's not really > > necessary. > > Can a SRC_URI be a file:// reference? The dev manual doesn't say.
I've answered my own question: no, a SRC_URI cannot be a file:// reference. I tried ebuild <newpkgname>.ebuild manifest, and portage went off to the UK mirrors to look for the distfile, which it tried to put into $DISTDIR. > And can I have a second $DISTDIR under /usr/local/portage? It may be possible to do this for specified packages by redefining DISTDIR in a package.env file, but I haven't pursued this idea. I may come back to it later, but for the time being I'm looking into Mike G's systemd-boot ebuild. -- Rgds Peter
