Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?

[Darren Kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>]

Quoth the maxim wexler
> Hello group,
>
> I recently sync'ed portage, but when I did #emerge
> digg2ogg it installed version 0.8 which is way out of
> date.
>
> I thought sync was supposed to "prime" portage to get
> the latest versions of software when needed.
>
> Here's the sync line in make.conf.
>
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
>
> Perhaps I should be adding more? Replace with
> something else?
>
> -Maxim

Hi Max,

I put in a bug request for a version bump and to make a newer version stable, 
but it has not been done yet. What you can do for now is:

# echo "media-sound/dir2ogg ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

and that will install dir2ogg-0.9.1.

Note: that is _still_ a couple versions behind the upstream stable version 
which is 0.9.3. If you need the newer features you may just want to grab the 
package from http://badcomputer.org/unix/dir2ogg and install manually. If you 
want to keep it in portage, you can set up an overlay (read portage guide for 
instructions on this) and simply copy the 0.9.1 ebuild to the overlay, change 
the name to 'dir2ogg-0.9.3.ebuild', digest it, and install as usual...

-d
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