On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:21:40 +0200
Nick Katsamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi to all gentoo users,
> 
> Recently i try to install Gentoo 1.4_rc3 to my PC.
> I have some questions about the packages that i can build.
> 
> 1) After a "emerge rsync" i try to install the Xfree package. Download the 
> 4.2.1-r2 and install it ok. But i notice in directory 
> "/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree" there are more recent versions for the Xfree 
> (4.3.0-r1). I try to update with "emerge -uvp --deep xfree" but no updates 
> are available. I try the command "emerge -vp --deep xfree" and the output 
> was: 
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R  ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2  -sse +nls +mmx +truetype +3dnow -3dfx
> 
> This is only an example. The same problem exist and to most other packages eg 
> gcc,kde...etc.
> 
> How can i solve it?

If you give the complete PATH for example emerge -up 
/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.0-r1.ebuild and that works or if you're not 
affraid by cached packages you can use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfree

> 
> 
> 2) When i update a package, in the "/usr/portage/distfiles" directory i have 
> the old version of the file and the new one. Is there any way to keep only 
> the new one and delete the old one?
> 
> eg: the package readline. I update to version 4.3 and in distfiles i have:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       919625 Feb 23 08:13 readline-4.2a.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       961662 Mar 16 15:44 readline-4.3.tar.gz
> 
> 
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> Best regards
> 
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