Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

[Paul Hoy <paul.hoy@mac.com>]

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:48 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Neil Bothwick
> >>
> >> Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics
> >>
> > 
> > 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

Zac,

Beauty. Just tried it and found some gnome updates. Very much
appreciated.

Paul

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