coorect, you could concievable run something like ebuild ebuildname qmerge if all the steps have been completed
-Kevin On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:45:10 +0100 > Willie WY Wong <wong...@member.ams.org> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase > > went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation > > phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage > > to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in > > /var/tmp/portage) directly without having to redo the compiling > > phase? > > not with emerge, but you can use the lower-level command ebuild for > that. > > portage & ebuild are analogous to yum & rpm or to apt* and dpkg > > man ebuild for more info > > > > > Case in point: > > > > I just tried to update dev-lib/boost to 1.52. The compilation went > > without a hitch, but the installation died because of file collision > > against (I think) boost-1.49.0-r1000. Now that the colliding files are > > no longer there, is there a way to tell portage to go ahead an install > > boost-1.52 from the compiled sources in /var/tmp/portage ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > W > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > >