[solved]Emerge question - higher program versions

smack_2k2 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 155

Hi,
i'm having a little problem with one of my gentoo systems.
I don't have a internet connection there, but i can download
any files and bring them onto that system. My question is:
can i still somehow emerge higher version of a program that is
not in the portage tree? [i was thinking abot downloading the
latest portage tree and install it there w/o any gentoo update of
course].

adaptr · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject:

If you mean emerge newer versions of programs that you do not yet have ebuilds for - no.
You need the ebuilds since that is how Portage works.

A compressed snapshot can, however, be easily taken with you - it's around 10MB extra.
Then you can emerge any package that was present and valid at the time of the snapshot.

You can get the daily Portage snapshots from the Snapshots directory on any mirror.
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smack_2k2 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 155

As an example, let's assume that kde 3.4 is out NOW.
What should i do in order to be able to emerge kde 3.4 ?

adaptr · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

If by out now you mean stable in portage, you would have to update the portage tree to that point before you can emerge kde 3.4.
Nothing changes that.
How you update the portage tree doesn't matter.

EDIT: sorry, I see. okay:
- update portage, with floppies if you like ;-)

- run

smack_2k2 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 155

Yeah ...
So when the new version if into the portage tree, all i have to do is install the latest portage snapshot.
[and of course get the files required for the new version compile].
Thanks