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From: Mike Payson <mike@bucky.dawgdayz.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilitylevels and such issues.
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:26:37 -0700
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On Saturday 20 April 2002 07:12 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> Mike Payson <mike@bucky.dawgdayz.com> writes:
> > How about something like:
> >   emerge --force foo_1.1beta
> >
> > with --force (or whatever keyword is chosen) telling it to ignore
> > the currently set stability level & install the particular package
> > specified?
>
>   hm, "--force" might eventually get other meanings, with dependencies
>   and such.  but I can't really think of any other fitting option.
>   "--any-stability-level" is a tad long, but "--force" will probably
>   imply "--any-stability-level", and of course, we can use a short
>   mapping of it (-A or so).  I'll see about getting this in as well.
>
>   please note that an option like this will _not_ have the exact
>   effect you're thinking of.
>
> emerge --force xgammon
>
>   will get the most resent xgammon.  if you specifically want
>   xgammon-0.98a you need to do:
>
> emerge --force =3Dxgammon-0.98a
>
>   note the "=3D".  if you don't give the "=3D"-sign emerge will look fo=
r
>   the latest version of the package "xgammon-0.98a" and come up short.
>   this is also how emerge / portage works today.