On 09:32 Mon 17 Mar     , FENOY G?rald wrote:
> 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
> 
It could also be masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, in which
case you could emerge it by commenting out its line in package.mask.


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