Gentoo Package Management with Portage

Gentoo Package Management with Portage

Posted Jun 10, 2004 3:11 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
Parent article: Gentoo Package Management with Portage

>>> # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge packagename

Actually, that's not the recommended way of doing it. That will emerge the "beta" version once, but can confuse the system when upgrading. If you do an "emerge -u world", it will likely downgrade to the stable version. If you do an "emerge -U world", to force only upgrades and never downgrade, it could break your system by not reverting packages later found to be buggy. That is, however, how I did it, until I discovered this thread in the Gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=163377

This is a must read for every Gentoo user. It starts getting good with robmoss2k's second post, about a fourth of a way down the page.

Portage is incredible. I'm nearly infinitely glad I switched from Red Hat about a year ago. :) I still use Fedora at work, but maybe I'll get them on Gentoo some day. :)

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