Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:15:43
Message-Id: 001001c7980f$98e62720$0200a8c0@iwillxp333
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ? by Vladimir Strycek
1 ----- Original Message -----
2 From: "Vladimir Strycek" <vladoportos@×××××××××××.sk>
3 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
4 Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:43 PM
5 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Old package in portage ?
6
7
8 > Duncan wrote / napísal(a):
9 >> Vladimir Strycek <vladoportos@×××××××××××.sk> posted
10 >> 464A9A91.50403@×××××××××××.sk, excerpted below, on Wed, 16 May 2007
11 >> 07:45:53 +0200:
12 >>
13 >>
14 >>> I was told that this issue has been fixed in new version of rrd tool
15 >>> rrdtool 1.2.23-r1 but this one isnt in portage..
16 >>>
17 >>
18 >> It's in portage. I'm guessing you either haven't synced in awhile, or
19 >> you aren't seeing it as you are running stable arch (amd64 in this case)
20 >> and the package in question isn't stabilized yet, tho it's keyworded
21 >> ~arch (unstable, ~amd64 in our case). Assuming you've synced, it's
22 >> almost
23 >> certainly the latter. You'll need to add the package to your
24 >> package.keywords file as appropriate. See the portage documentation in
25 >> the Gentoo handbook (installation is just one section of several,
26 >> you know, and there's a LOT of stuff in the other sections, particularly
27 >> the working with Gentoo and working with Portage sections, that make a
28 >> Gentoo sysadmin's job FAR easier than it'd be otherwise) and portage
29 >> and emerge manpages.
30 >>
31 >> There's a script, earch, that I picked up on the dev list some time ago,
32 >> that lists the versions of a package and the latest stable and ~arch
33 >> versions for each arch. Here's what it reports for rrdtool:
34 >>
35 >> $earch rrdtool
36 >> rrdtool-1.0.49[0]:
37 >> rrdtool-1.2.15-r3[0]: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 sh sparc
38 >> x86
39 >> rrdtool-1.2.19[0]:
40 >> rrdtool-1.2.23[0]:
41 >> rrdtool-1.2.23-r1[0]: ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64
42 >> ~sh ~sparc ~x86
43 >>
44 >> So rrdtool-1.2.23-r1 is keyworded ~amd64, while 1.2.15-r3 is the
45 >> latest stable.
46
47 earch looks like good candidate for gentoolkit
48
49 >>
50 >>
51 > Thanks i look into it
52 > --
53 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
54 >
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