omz13

I’ve created two ebuilds that install the HEAD and 2.2.0-RC3 of freetype from its cvs repository. This is rather handy for people who want to be on the bleeding edge of freetype development/usage.

NOTE: This ebuild uses the nifty cvs versioning support found in portage-2.1; this means that when its installed, any previous freetype ebuild is automagically removed. (In previous versions of portage, the cvs version and the vanilla version were regarded as separate entities, but in 2.1 they are regarded as the same, so previous versions are automagically removed when you install a cvs ebuild over a vanilla ebuild). For more information, see this topic in the gentoo forums.

To get these ebuilds into your local portage tree, simply do:

# rsync -rztv --delete rsync://rsync.omz13.com/local-portage/media-libs/freetype /usr/local/portage/media-libs

To emerge HEAD, do: # emerge =freetype-cvs.0

To emerge 2.2.0-RC3, do: # emerge =freetype-cvs.2.2.0_rc3

NOTE: There are some problems with RC3 which have been fixed in HEAD, and RC4 will be rolled out soon.

Tags: ebuild, freetype

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