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Hi Stuart, |
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Thank you so much for the explanation regarding masked Ebuilds - makes |
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perfect sense! |
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I wasn't complaining about the fact that MySQL4.1 wasn't avail yet on |
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Gentoo, I was just surprised that it was causing still some troubles. |
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After the few replies to my original post, I attempted to emerge |
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MySQL4.1 and experienced myself some issues. It went through |
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compilation and installed it, but it is impossible to launch it - I get |
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a severe crash. I fear that I need to re-emerge a lot of main library |
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dependencies using the ~x86 mask, but I haven't tried yet. |
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Cheers, |
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Sébastien |
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"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right |
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questions." |
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-- Claude Levi-Strauss |
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On Nov 30, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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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 |
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> 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 |
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> because |
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> we don't have enough developers looking after the package to keep up |
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> with new |
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> releases; or the developers who do look after the package are spending |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> stuart@g.o |
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> Gentoo Developer |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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> http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ |
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