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From: Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how thorough is #emerge --sync?
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> I thought sync was supposed to "prime" portage to get
> the latest versions of software when needed.
All sync does is download the latest ebuilds into your local portage
tree. If the ebuild maintainers haven't gotten around to creating an
ebuild for package 'foo-1.2.0' (the lastest) and are still using
'foo-0.8' then you're stuck with 'foo-0.8' unless you roll your own
ebuild for 'foo-1.2.0'.
Of course you're also welcome to submit the custom ebuild into
bugzilla to get it included in portage for everyone else to benefit
from.
-Andrew Kay
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