Start off by searching the portage tree for an ebuild of the latest version. Alot of the time it won't upgrade it automaticly, but the newer ebuild could just be sitting in portage.
If this isn't the case, then head on over to bugs.gentoo.org and search for the package you are trying to upgrade. When people want a new package or ebuild to show up in portage, they will toss a bug report in requesting that someone create an ebuild for this, or submitting one if they made it themselves. luke On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:56:40AM -0500, Kevin wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm a Gentoo newbie but a long-time (10 years) Linux user/sysadmin and I > have a quick question that's not addressed in the FAQ or the portage > manual (admittedly, I've only read the first part and browsed the rest): > > When I know that the current revision of OpenAFS is 1.2.11, but my portage > system shows that it's 1.2.10-r1, how do I get 1.2.11 installed? > > I just finished doing an emerge sync, but emerge search afs still shows > that the latest version available is 1.2.10-r1. I guess that's because > the mirror that emerge is looking at (default) only has 1.2.10. How do I > configure portage to go directly to the source sites (say, openafs.org) > for certain packages, rather than a big mirror that may not be completely > up-to-date? mirrorselect is failing for me for some reason (it exits > with "No mirrors have been selected. Exiting")---I'm not behind a > firewall or anything. Thoughts? > > I'm very impressed with Gentoo, BTW. It solves a problem that I've been > aware of for a long time and seems to solve other problems that have > never even occurred to me yet, but that I can see are problems (after > reading your docs). Very nice product! > > TIA, > Kevin > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
