On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:16:22PM +0000, Trevor Gordon wrote: > Well, I don't like updating every night because the nightlies frequently > introduce new bugs or fail to fix current ones. Every now and then they > release one thats stable, relativly bugfree and has all the new features > implemented since 0.6 > > Its the latest of those builds that I think should be in portage. Of > course, identifying and maintaining this ebuild takes a bit of research. > (Not that hard, Firebird forums always have a massive thread discussing > the current "best" build) > > Someone has to be willing to do that, and be able to construct the > ebuild for submission. That way everyone can have the latest stable > build w/o having to research it themselves (and manually install it)
You mean they release several 0.6 versions that they consider stable? Just download that snapshot and rename it to whatever file the current ebuild asks for and place it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Then use ebuild ebuild_name.ebuild digest, and emerge it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
