Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilitylevels and such issues.

[Terje Kvernes]

Mike Payson <mike@××××××××××××××.com> writes:

> How about something like:
>   emerge --force foo_1.1beta
>
> with --force (or whatever keyword is chosen) telling it to ignore
> the currently set stability level & install the particular package
> specified?

  hm, "--force" might eventually get other meanings, with dependencies
  and such.  but I can't really think of any other fitting option.
  "--any-stability-level" is a tad long, but "--force" will probably
  imply "--any-stability-level", and of course, we can use a short
  mapping of it (-A or so).  I'll see about getting this in as well.

  please note that an option like this will _not_ have the exact
  effect you're thinking of.

emerge --force xgammon

  will get the most resent xgammon.  if you specifically want
  xgammon-0.98a you need to do:

emerge --force =xgammon-0.98a

  note the "=".  if you don't give the "="-sign emerge will look for
  the latest version of the package "xgammon-0.98a" and come up short.
  this is also how emerge / portage works today.

-- 
Terje