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From: ms@××××××××××××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:21:50
Message-Id: 49EADF10.2000509@venturemedia.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to use newer version of a package ? by Thomas Chef
1 Thomas Chef wrote:
2 > I want to use Rosegarden, and the latest stable version (according to
3 > www.rosegardenmusic.com) is 1.7.3
4 >
5 > But when I use emerge rosegarden I only get version 1.5.1 ?
6 >
7 > I tried to create a /etc/portage/package.keywords:
8 > =/media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3 ~x86
9 >
10 > But this doesnt seem to help:
11 > # emerge --update rosegarden
12 > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords:
13 > =/media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3
14 >
15 > If I search http://gentoo-portage.com/ I can find the 1.7.3 version there ?
16 >
17 > What can be wrong ?
18 >
19
20 The entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords is wrong. Remove the leading
21 slash an it should work.
22
23 =media-sound/rosegarden-1.7.3