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On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 06:41, Ilian Zarov wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 11:52, Matthew Kennedy wrote: |
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> > My question has two parts. 1.I had expected that the "latest version |
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> > available" would show 4.2a, but it doesn't. I must be missing something |
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> > about how emerge determines which ebuild is the latest available. Is |
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> > 4.2a not to be used just right now? |
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> emerge checks if the packages is blocked (whether it is included in |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask). Blocked packages are usually |
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> broken/incomplete ebuilds or early alpha/beta versions of the specified |
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> application. |
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> > 2. octave want's 4.2. I can satisfy it with an "ebuild |
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> > readline-4.2a.ebuild merge", but then I don't think i should, because if |
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> > users aren't getting 4.2 from an emerge, then I doubt I can expect them |
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> > to ebuild it manually when they emerge the octave package. Does this |
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> > logic sound right? |
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> You should talk to an @gentoo.org developer about removing readline-4.2a |
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> from package.mask if you consider it stable enough (isn't this actually |
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> an alpha version ?). Not very sure of how the package.mask stuff is |
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> handled. |
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No, 4.2a was latest version at that time (not sure about |
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currently). |
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> > Many thanks, |
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> > |
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> > Matt |
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> Best Regards, |
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> Ilian Zarov |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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