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Clete2
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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:12 am Post subject: Suggestion: Alpha or beta-beta tags... |
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| I know this has most likely been suggested before, but here goes. I say they add some keywords like "~~x86" or something, meaning alpha. Today, I went to emerge php (my system is mainly x86, but I use a lot of ~x86 packages as well...) and I found that 5.0 wasn't avaliable. 5.0 is alpha right now... I don't mind manually doing it, but it would save me some time. So what do you guys think? |
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snakattak3
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Probably no one's made an ebuild for it. When you put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in your make.conf, it'll install the *newest* version available in portage. Not necessarily the current alpha stage or whatever available on the internet. However, if you really want the newest php... | Code: | emerge -s php
* dev-php/php-cvs [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 5.0-r2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://www.php.net/
Description: PHP Shell Interpreter - development version |
Go for it. And something like "~~x86" is just silly. How on earth is someone gonna determine whats alpha ("~~86"), or whats beta ("~x86")? If your really looking for somethign like that, Debian has 3 versions I think. Patato, Sid, and Woody (not in that order probably), thats probably more on the lines of what your thinking. "~x86" in gentoo terms means unstable, which is the newest ebuild available in portage, so unstable may be alpha or beta or "won't even compile let alone work".
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Clete2
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Ok, thanks...
I see what you mean  ... And no, I don't wish to go with Debian, I have bad impressions of it (7 discs and I keep getting the same error no matter what I do  , must be a bad ISO...) |
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