Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Vladimir Strycek <vladoportos@×××××××××××.sk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:45:32
Message-Id: 464B6CF7.8070102@vladoportos.sk
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote / napísal(a):
2 > Vladimir Strycek <vladoportos@×××××××××××.sk> posted
3 > 464A9A91.50403@×××××××××××.sk, excerpted below, on Wed, 16 May 2007
4 > 07:45:53 +0200:
5 >
6 >
7 >> I was told that this issue has been fixed in new version of rrd tool
8 >> rrdtool 1.2.23-r1 but this one isnt in portage..
9 >>
10 >
11 > It's in portage. I'm guessing you either haven't synced in awhile, or
12 > you aren't seeing it as you are running stable arch (amd64 in this case)
13 > and the package in question isn't stabilized yet, tho it's keyworded
14 > ~arch (unstable, ~amd64 in our case). Assuming you've synced, it's almost
15 > certainly the latter. You'll need to add the package to your
16 > package.keywords file as appropriate. See the portage documentation in
17 > the Gentoo handbook (installation is just one section of several,
18 > you know, and there's a LOT of stuff in the other sections, particularly
19 > the working with Gentoo and working with Portage sections, that make a
20 > Gentoo sysadmin's job FAR easier than it'd be otherwise) and portage
21 > and emerge manpages.
22 >
23 > There's a script, earch, that I picked up on the dev list some time ago,
24 > that lists the versions of a package and the latest stable and ~arch
25 > versions for each arch. Here's what it reports for rrdtool:
26 >
27 > $earch rrdtool
28 > rrdtool-1.0.49[0]:
29 > rrdtool-1.2.15-r3[0]: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 sh sparc x86
30 > rrdtool-1.2.19[0]:
31 > rrdtool-1.2.23[0]:
32 > rrdtool-1.2.23-r1[0]: ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86
33 >
34 > So rrdtool-1.2.23-r1 is keyworded ~amd64, while 1.2.15-r3 is the
35 > latest stable.
36 >
37 >
38 Thanks i look into it
39 --
40 gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ? Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>