Thanks, very handy and usefull indeed.

Thomas

Andrew Cowie wrote:

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 04:10, Thomas Degris wrote:


Thanks, why didn't I get this package by emerge -s blender ?



I use etcat for this sort of thing. It's in gentoolkit.


procyon:~ # qpkg -f /usr/bin/etcat
app-portage/gentoolkit *
procyon:~ #

Do this yourself at home - it's really impressive in full colour:

procyon:~ # etcat versions blender
[ Results for search key : blender ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-gfx/blender :
       [   ] media-gfx/blender-2.23-r1 (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.26 (0)
       [   ] media-gfx/blender-2.27 (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.28a (0)
       [   ] media-gfx/blender-2.28c (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.28 (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.30 (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.31a (0)
       [M~ ] media-gfx/blender-2.31 (0)

procyon:~ #

This shows that blender 2.28c is the latest stable version for my arch. ~ mark packages which are marked ~x86 (for my arch); The M show masked
packages (in this case, because I of course am a good boy who doesn't
have ~x86 as a default USE variable.


If you use the `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge blender -p` thing that
others have mentioned, you'll see the way to pull in the newer version.

AfC





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