On 10/19/03  Andrej Kacian wrote:

> When I do "emerge rsync", emerge starts to sync my local portage tree
> instead of installing newest available version of rsync. I have
> noticed that "rsync" is on list of known 'actions' in emerge script.
> How does one update rsync other than using full path to latest rsync
> ebuild?

include the category or include the version (e.g. emerge \>=rsync-2.5.6)

> Isn't it incorrect to have an emerge action with same name as a
> package?

Yes, and we are trying to deprecate the rsync action (as well as all
actions not starting with -), so the correct command to sync the tree is
`emerge --sync`.

Marius

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