On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org> wrote: > I was checking to see what version of eclipse seems to have a portage package, > and I was kinda shocked that the package seems a bit outdated. 3.4 is the > current portage package, but eclipse has been at 3.5 for a good while now. > Seeing as the eclipse website has a linux binary 3.5+ package, unless I've > overlooked something available from gentoo (I would be overjoyed to have made > that mistake) then I'm going to be forced to see how to coax portage to allow > me > to use that eclipse site binary package to sub for ALL eclipse packages. > > Anyone know how to get portage to make externally supplied binaries to supply > portage eclipse dependencies? All of the huge number of eclipse plugins can > be > done without using portage just fine, but the eclipse itself, that I would > really rather use a portage ebuild for installation. > > >
I don't know about installing binary stuff - probably wouldn't work unless you have exactly the right libraries and what not. Anyway, I seem to see a 3.5 version masked with ~ . Note that I would unmask it in portage.keywords and not the way I'm showing it below. HTH, Mark m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse * dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj Available versions: (3.3) 3.3.0-r1 (3.4) 3.4 (3.5) ~3.5.1 {elibc_FreeBSD} Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/ Description: Ant Compiler Adapter for Eclipse Java Compiler * dev-java/eclipse-ecj Available versions: (3.3) 3.3.0-r3 (3.4) 3.4-r4 (3.5) ~3.5.1 {ant elibc_FreeBSD java6} Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/ Description: Eclipse Compiler for Java * dev-util/eclipse-sdk Available versions: (3.4) 3.4-r2 {doc elibc_FreeBSD java6} Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/ Description: Eclipse Tools Platform Found 3 matches. m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv eclipse-ecj These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.4-r4 USE="-java6" 1,251 kB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,251 kB dragonfly ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv eclipse-ecj These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-python/pyxml-0.8.4-r2 USE="-doc -examples" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/javatoolkit-0.3.0-r3 17 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r4 USE="-doc -source" 6,828 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.5.1 USE="ant" 1,268 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj-3.5.1 0 kB Total: 6 packages (6 new), Size of downloads: 8,111 kB dragonfly ~