The man page (man emerge) says that you can "inject" a package. Or make portage assume its installed by:
emerge -i <pkgname> or emerge inject <pkgname> If portage thinks the latest version is installed it won't worry that you have a newer one installed. Hope that helps. Side note for everyone else, shouldn't there be (or isn't there) a faq for this sorta thing? On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:30, Jordan Elver wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering how I can handle the merging of ~x86 packages. For example, I > wanted to install opera 7 which is unstable, so I did: > > KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge opera > > Which gave the desired result. The problem now though is that everytime I do > an emerge world it wants to downgrade opera to version 6. How can I tell > portage that I want to keep ~x86 versions of certain packages? I have the > same problem with apache (but the other way around) as I want to keep apache1 > but emerge insists on upgrading to 2. > > How can get around this? > > TIA, > Jordan > -- > Jordan Elver > Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability. -- > David Brent (The Office) > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Christopher In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong.
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