* G�zimHoxha (2003-06-22 01:16 +0200)
> --- Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Friday 20 June 2003 10:21 pm, G�zim wrote:
>>> If you go to http://www.blender3d.org/, you can
>>> clearly see that version 2.27 is out. The thing is
>>> though that when I do "emerge -pv blender" this is
>> the
>>> output:
>>>
>>> These are the packages that I would merge, in
>> order:
>>> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> [ebuild N ] media-gfx/blender-2.23-r1
>>>
>>>
>>> How come it doesn't merge 2.27 but 2.23?
>>> And how do I specify that I want this <version> of
>> a
>>> package? emerge <package>=<version>?
>>>
>>>
>> Apparently blender-2.27 is masked. To emerge masked
>> package (I always
>> emerge --pretend first) do:
>> # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p blender
> As far as I understand ~x86 is the unstable version of
> gentoo, right? And with unstable stuff I had some bad
> experience in debian, so I am still scared to do
> anyunstable things!
> # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~86" emerge -p blender
> what does that do?
emerge blender
> what does the accept_keywords do?
man make.conf
> Will it install only blender as unstable and go back
> to normal when I do something else like emerge amsn?
Depends on where you set it. ("ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" is incremental)
> And why the heck is blender masked anyhow?
Ask the maintainer.
Thorsten
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