Portage is going to downgrade you to the latest stable version. If you want to run the latest versions of ALL the software that you have installed then you want to change your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in your make.conf to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reichholf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage/emerge and it's "default ebuilds"
> Hello there fellow gentoo-users, > > i'm fairly new to gentoo (just installed it last weekend) and have been > fiddling with it and the emerge/portage system for some time now. > > I have noticed that the "newest version available" is not always the > newest version that actually is available. > > Waimea 0.4.0 for instance is available in the x11-wm/waimea directory, > though if you go for the normal "emerge -u waiema" and you have version > 0.3.3 installed it will tell you that there is nothing to update... this > also applies to other applications, how come though? > > this can be rather frustrating at some points, especially if i prefer > the 0.4.0 version over the 0.3.3 version (as an example). so i just > decided to ebuild it. though, now every time i do an emerge -up world it > will of course check the /var/cache/edb/world, see the "x11-wm/waimea" > entry, and check to see if there is an update for it, and strangely > enough it will tell me: > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild UD] x11-wm/waimea-0.3.3 [0.4.0] > > any ideas why this is so (as mentioned beforehand this of course also > applies to other applications - ie. xchat) > > regards, > Brian > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
