On 2006-02-01, codehead <codehead78@gmail.com> wrote:
> file is /usr/portage/distfiles/netkit-telnetd-0.17.tar.gz
>
> # export PKGDIR=/usr/portage
>
> # emerge --usepkgonly netkit-telnetd
> .. tries to download...
>
> # emerge --usepkgonly =netkit-telnetd-0.17
> .. no ebuilds
>
> # emerge netkit-telnetd -s
> Latest version: 0.17-r6, not installed...

if the source tarball is already in /usr/portage/distfiles, then simply:

# emerge netkit-telnetd



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