Paul Hoy wrote:
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through
and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does
not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO.
They're not "unstable", they are "testing", and that only applies to the
ebuild itself, not the upstream package. If you want the latest versions,
you need to run ~arch. Any distro that puts brand new packages (with the
exception of security fixes) into its stable package tree has thrown all
concept of QA out of the window.
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Hi Neil,
Is there a way to explicitly search for ~arch releases or do I have set
the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in make.conf and hope for the best during
emerge?
Paul
*ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable*
You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put them
directly on the command line.
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s foo
It's best to use /etc/portage/package.keywords to keep your package specific keywords
(documented in the "portage" manpage).
Zac
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