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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:28, Sébastien Arnaud wrote: |
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> Hi to all: |
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> 1. Does somebody know the reason behind masking an ebuild, instead of |
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> marking it as "unstable" via ~x86 ? |
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Ebuilds are masked for a number of reasons. Here's a list of the more common |
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ones: |
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a) Known security issue, and no fix available |
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b) The package isn't considered stable (~arch is for packages that are |
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known to work, but the ebuild still needs testing) |
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c) Known major bugs that make the package unusable |
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Hmmm ... we should put this somewhere in a FAQ. |
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> 2. Why is MySQL 4.1 ebuild still masked and unavailable, when it is |
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> becoming widely available on other linux distro? |
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Usually, whenever package X isn't as up to date as it could be, it's because |
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we don't have enough developers looking after the package to keep up with new |
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releases; or the developers who do look after the package are spending their |
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time on other issues. |
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Please remember that Gentoo is a *community* project. All the Gentoo |
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developers are volunteers, and the vast majority of our contributions to |
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Gentoo are made during our spare time. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ |
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GnuPG key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu |
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Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C |
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