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yozik
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Location: Oregon, USA
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 Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 5:29 am Post subject: So help with portage and emerge |
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After doing an emerge rsync then emerge -up world the output said that it needed to emerge portage then run emerge -u world again. Well after doing an emerge portage most of my config files were replaced with default ones (this is no big prob thanks to bakup files  and not the reason for this post)
But my question is: why when I do something like emerge -s portage I get
* sys-apps/portage
Latest version available: 2.0.46-r9
Latest version installed: 2.0.47
Size of downloaded files: 152 kB
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org
Description: Portage ports system
Is this because version 2.0.47 is an unstable one and I just don't know that?
Also I want to see what version of xine-ui I had installed so I did a | Code: | * media-video/xine-ui
Latest version available: 0.9.13
Latest version installed: 0.9.13
Size of downloaded files: 1,677 kB
Homepage: http://xine.sourceforge.net/* media-video/xine-ui
Latest version available: 0.9.13
Latest version installed: 0.9.13
Size of downloaded files: 1,677 kB
Homepage: http://xine.sourceforge.net/
Description: Xine is a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems
Description: Xine is a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems |
but when I looked at the /usr/portage/media-video/xine-ui I saw that 0.9.18 was available for emerging, is too an unstable ebuild? I know that version 0.9.18 is a stable release for the offical website.
So basically my question is how do I get emerge -s or emerge -u to show the latest (stable/unstable) version available?
Or is there a problem with whatever file that holds the current and availble ebuilds?
Thanx
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rac
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Joined: 30 May 2002
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Location: Japanifornia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 6:32 am Post subject: Re: So help with portage and emerge |
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| yozik wrote: | | Is this because version 2.0.47 is an unstable one and I just don't know that? |
Yes - it's masked in package.mask. I wonder how you got it installed.
| Quote: | | So basically my question is how do I get emerge -s or emerge -u to show the latest (stable/unstable) version available? |
In general, set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to your architecture (x86 for example) for stable, and set it to ~arch (~x86) for unstable. There are exceptions with packages masked in package.mask, and you have to look in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to find those.
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yozik
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | yozik wrote:
Is this because version 2.0.47 is an unstable one and I just don't know that?
Yes - it's masked in package.mask. I wonder how you got it installed.
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Well I just looked inside of the /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage dir and found the 2.0.47 ebuild so in thinking that that was the lastest stable I emerged it.
And in looking at my /etc/make.conf file I find
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#ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch"
# Portage Directories
# ===================
so I am lead to think that all the ebuilds that are listed are "stable". |
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