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On 01/06/2014 11:48, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: |
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> Hi all. I had installed Gnome 3.10 a few days ago, and now things have |
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> been migrating towards 3.12 Has Gnome 3.12 just launched for the x86 |
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> platforms, or is there something amiss with Portage that I should |
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> check? I get this weird update process: it gives me a version, such as |
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> 4.0, but the next day bumps me up to 4.1, which is weird, since logic |
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> would say that 4.1 is the newest, you'd want it over 4.0. Or is it the |
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> SLOTS technology? I've not quite gotten that concept yet. |
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Let's back up a bit and first cover the technique of asking smart |
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questions, as what you typed can't really be answered. |
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You need to supply specifics when asking questions. Vague general |
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questions indicate you are too lazy to think, or you don;t really know |
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what you are doing, and both usually give no answers. |
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Which packages exactly are updating, and why do you think this is |
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noteworthy?For big meta projects like gnome it is quite normal for the |
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low level packages (like libs) to be updated first, then more higher |
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level apps and so on till everything is in the tree. This gives the devs |
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time to get bug reports if those ebuilds still need work. Nothing |
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unusual in this at all. |
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Some packages like KDE don't use this method, they drop everything for |
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the next version in the tree in one commit. Both approaches are valid, |
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neither are incorrect and both are perfectly normal. |
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Your second question also doesn't make sense. You had foo-4.0 and now |
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you get foo-4.1. What's the problem? Nothing crazy is going on, you got |
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an update. |
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If you want a better answer, ask a better question and specify exactly |
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which packages you don't understand. Usually, typing up the mail already |
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shows you what is going on. |
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Here's what probably happened: You got 4.0 because that is what was in |
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the tree. With the next sync you got 4.1 because it has been committed |
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in the interim. What's noteworthy about that? |
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Gentoo moves *very* fast with many commits to the tree in a day. It's |
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not red hat and it's not Windows with patch Tuesday. |
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And it has nothing to do with SLOTs - read the handbook to find out what |
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those are, it's in the install doc. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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