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Gavin Seddon posted <1134386969.11073.6.camel@linuxstation>, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +0000: |
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> I had found this |
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> http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html#Locating_and_installing_specific |
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> A better question would have been, |
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> 'how do I find the full package name for 'emerge ='? |
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do an emerge --pretend, and get the category off of that? |
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BTW, while the emerge =pkg-name-version-release thing works, it's only a |
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rough hack, not suitable for anything more than temporary use, because the |
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moment you try to run an emerge --update --deep world (or without the |
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deep, if it's something in your world file), it'll want to replace your |
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very carefully selected version with the latest version matching your |
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keyword (~amd64 or amd64). |
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Adding the appropriate packages to either package.mask/package.unmask, as |
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desired, or if you simply want to toggle between ~arch and stable, adding |
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the package (without version) and desired keyword to package.keyword, |
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avoids the problem of having portage continually want to remerge a |
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different version than what you want. |
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Again, read the handbook, particularly the Working with Gentoo and Working |
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with Portage sections (you can skip some of the developer stuff if you |
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want). Too many folks read /only/ the install portion, and then |
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wonder why "Working with Gentoo" and "Working with Portage" are so hard |
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for them! (I actually read those sections at least twice, once when I was |
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still researching whether I wanted to switch to Gentoo and what it would |
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entail, so I had a decent grasp of how managing it was going to be |
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different than managing my then Mandrake system, even if I didn't |
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understand everything I was reading because I couldn't actually try it, |
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then again, once I actually had Gentoo up and running, and could actually |
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try things on a running system to see how they worked.) |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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