On 4/4/06, go moko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you sure it's not a dependency? Try "emerge -pD > > libXext" to get a list > > of everything that is needed to build and install > > that library. > > > > dcm > > No, I've checked that. And libXext is just an example, > but other packages (a minority) act as this one. > emerge try to download the exact file that I've put in > /usr/portage/distfiles. I checked this too by doing an > 'ls -l' on the file that emerge try to download (by > cut'n paste, to be sure), and the file is here, with > good rights and nothing special.
I've worked this way before, and it is definitely possible to do. Can you post the output of: emerge -pv --fetchonly libXext ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/libXext* emerge --info -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list