You can often find newer versions of packages in portage, masked.
# emerge -p R sane-backends [ebuild N ] dev-lang/R-1.6.1 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.12-r2
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p sane-backends R [ebuild N ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.13-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/R-1.8.0
As for your scanner, I can't say if the slightly newer version would help as it isn't listed on the SANE compatibility list at all:
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane-project.org//sane-mfgs.html
But its probably worth a try...
Do you know what version of sane-backends Mandrake includes?
As for R, there is a newer version masked in portage. Masked packages are generally there for testing and not guaranteed stable. Most of the time you will have no problems though. You can also commonly find new ebuilds in the gentoo bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/
But, I couldn't see one for R 1.8.1 ("R" is a bit difficult to search for). You can always post ebuild requests to the Bugzilla to get the developers attention.
Daniel.
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Right. I'm impressed with Gentoo's speed, outperforms mandrake 9.2 in an iincredible way; after having solved a few problems (gnome took forever to log out for instance, until I added a host.conf file in /etc with
order hosts, bind in it ... now why was that file missing ?).
I have just two minor points to solve which really put me off:
- my primax colorado d 300 parallel port scanner; mandrake's sane-backends include support for this (but I had it working on all distro's tried so far, from debian to slackware) gentoo apparently does not. What would the best way of solving this be ? I could just build the standalone program and put it in /usr/local/bin of course, but it would be handier to have the scanner work under sane. I don't have the faintest idea of how I could achieve that ( I don't like the idea of changing system sane by hand because at the first emerge update everything would get wiped out - or make a new sane-backend ebuild ?? don't think I have the time and knowledge as I really am not into the deep workings of sane at all and I know nothing about emerge);
- R. Now really ! Gentoo is supposed to be the bleeding edge ... and the
stable R emerge is 1.6.1 which is over a year old, current stable version
of the program is 1.8.1 ... again, I could just build R in /usr/local of
course ... but the gentoo way would be nicer. In the R rpm's for Mandrake
in CRAN ( R comprehensive archive network) almost nothing has changed in the spec file from 1.6.1 to 1.8.1 ... shouldn't it be easy to do the same for Gentoo ?
Anyway any suggestions are welcome !
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