On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:18, Marius Mauch wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote:
When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u --nodeps packagename
You'd ofcourse have to do emerge -up packagename first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies of the stable package installed. Odds are that the unstable depends on the same packages and that the --nodeps emerge will work just fine.
Please don't use -u with single packages unless you're sure you know what you're doing. The description is a bit irritating, you can update a package without -u as it is for updating dependencies (and --deep is for 2nd level dependencies). So -u --nodeps is really pointless.
Yes, if you know ahead you dont have the package installed it is. If you just want to "upgrade if it can be upgraded" -u --nodeps is good for ~x86 packages.
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge packagename
will update a package to a ~x86 version, if a x86 version is installed.
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