why is my gaim out of date but not need updated?

strider3700 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 94

I ran into a problem with gaim today so I took a quick look at their site and sure enough there is a new version. So I did emerge sync emerge -u gaim but it says nothing needs to be done. Some quick version checking shows that the newest version according to portage is 0.72 the newest version on their site is 0.75.

So I figured I'd write a new ebuild to get it up to date as it's a few months behind. However when I went to /usr/portage/.../gaim I found some newer release canidates and even a gaim-0.75.ebuild.

How come this doesn't come up in the emerge -u listing as needing to be run? Is this an issue with my system?

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gaim

strider3700 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 94

yeah I manually emerged it already. Do I need to add the accept keywords something like /etc/make to bring everything upto date?

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

if you want to be on unstable sure, its in make.conf

strider3700 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 94

doh, no wonder I wasn't getting as many updates as before I rebuilt. there must be 90 things in there now.

what's the determining factor on when things move from unstable to stable?

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

stability, testing,...