On Monday 17 March 2003 08:21 am, Nick Katsamas 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?
>
>
> 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
Try doing "emerge -s xfree"
you will get:
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xfree ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* x11-base/xfree
Latest version available: 4.2.1-r2
Latest version installed: 4.3.0-r1
Size of downloaded files: 62,373 kB
Homepage: http://www.xfree.org
Description: Xfree86: famous and free X server
* x11-base/xfree-drm [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 4.3.0-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 187 kB
Homepage: http://www.xfree.org
Description: Xfree86 Kernel DRM modules
noticed x11-base/xfree-drm [ Masked ]
The package is masked to protect you from yourself. Read up on masked
packages. You can edit /etc/make.conf to accept masked pkgs if you're
brave but Gerald's suggestion is better ie only accepting packages on
an individual basis.
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Regards, Ernie
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