Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes:
> > Can I download any rpm, stick it in this directory > > and it will install with emerge? > No it just means that you are downloading it manually instead of emerge > downloading it. This is because emerge fails at the download. OK > If emerge finds the file in /usr/portage/distfiles it doesn't try to > download it again, and it doesn't care how it got there. How does a gentoo system know the difference between an rpm file that it can install and a rpm file that it cannot or should not install on a gentoo system? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
