[gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

[gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

I did #emerge --sync a couple of weeks ago, followed
by an update of portage. But seems every time I do $
emerge -pv <some pkg> it always references software
out-of-date by years sometimes. Two recent examples:
sdcc and ecasound. There are many more.

How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg
without having to download the tarball and
compiling/installing it manually?

Maxim


       
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:

> I did #emerge --sync a couple of weeks ago, followed
> by an update of portage. But seems every time I do $
> emerge -pv <some pkg> it always references software
> out-of-date by years sometimes. Two recent examples:
> sdcc and ecasound. There are many more.

If you want the latest, the first thing to do is sync, othrwise you're
going to miss out on anything added in the last two weeks.

> How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg
> without having to download the tarball and
> compiling/installing it manually?

Ebuilds are generally marked stable around a month after being added to
portage, so if you want the latest version of a program, you need to
emerge the testing (~arch) ebuild.


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Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

[b.n.]

maxim wexler ha scritto:
> How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg
> without having to download the tarball and
> compiling/installing it manually?

You probably want ebuilds for newer packages that are still not in
Portage. You can 1)file a request bug or 2)write an ebuild yourself for
the community.

Good luck,

m.
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RE: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

[burlingk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b.n. [mailto:brullonulla@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:28 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?
> 
> 
> maxim wexler ha scritto:
> > How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg
> > without having to download the tarball and compiling/installing it 
> > manually?
> 
> You probably want ebuilds for newer packages that are still 
> not in Portage. You can 1)file a request bug or 2)write an 
> ebuild yourself for the community.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> m.

Also, there are sometimes packages that the last stable version was
just that old.

There are also ocasionally packages that require multiple versions to be
installed in order to achieve what we want.  How many versions of glib
are there?

Also, from what I have seen, portage often times has the most recent
builds of the packages that change most.  :P

That is one of my main reasons for moving towards Gentoo to start with.
^_^  I like current packages. ^_^
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