On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:46 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: > > That won't work, emerge can only work with ebuilds or portage binary > > packages. You can either write your own ebuild to install the binary, > > which is pretty straightforward, or simply unpack it to /. > > > Portage binary packages aren't actually .tar.gz archives?
No, they are tar.bz2 archives with some metadata appended. without that metadata, portage cannot create an entry in the package database. -- Neil Bothwick Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome. - Isaac Asimov
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