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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user] Some questions about the packages (ebuilds)
From:       Nick Katsamas <nkat () forthnet ! gr>
Date:       2003-03-17 8:21:40
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Hi to all gentoo users,

Recently i try to install Gentoo 1.4_rc3 to my PC.
I have some questions about the packages that i can build.

1) After a "emerge rsync" i try to install the Xfree package. Download the 
4.2.1-r2 and install it ok. But i notice in directory 
"/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree" there are more recent versions for the Xfree 
(4.3.0-r1). I try to update with "emerge -uvp --deep xfree" but no updates 
are available. I try the command "emerge -vp --deep xfree" and the output 
was: 

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R  ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2  -sse +nls +mmx +truetype +3dnow -3dfx

This is only an example. The same problem exist and to most other packages eg 
gcc,kde...etc.

How can i solve it?


2) When i update a package, in the "/usr/portage/distfiles" directory i have 
the old version of the file and the new one. Is there any way to keep only 
the new one and delete the old one?

eg: the package readline. I update to version 4.3 and in distfiles i have:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       919625 Feb 23 08:13 readline-4.2a.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       961662 Mar 16 15:44 readline-4.3.tar.gz


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Best regards

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        Nick Katsamas
   e-Mail: nkat@forthnet.gr 
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