Re: [gentoo-user] Minor questions: binutils-apple upgrade; pango; geany; etc.

[Alex Schuster]

Daniel Ibn Zayd writes:

> 1) I installed portage according to the bootstrap instructions, setting
> binutils-apple to version 3.2 (now 3.2.6) according to my version of
> XCode. Nonetheless, doing a world update pretend run always gives me
> this:
>
> Code:
> [ebuild  NS    ] sys-devel/binutils-apple-4.2 [3.2.6] USE="-lto -test"
>
>
> 4.2 won't install as it is not compatible (if I understand correctly
> from the bootstrap instructions); and 3.2.6 is installed with flags
> "one-shot" and "no-deps"....
>
> Is there a way to tell Portage not to attempt to upgrade here?

Looks to me this is not an upgrade, but a second install of this package,
in addition to the existing one. The 'NS' says this package is new, and
slotted, if it were an upgrade only, the 'S' would be an 'U'. Add the -t
(or --tree) option to emerge, this can tell you what package pulls in the
new version.

You can mask the new version by putting 
  >=sys-devel/binutils-apple-4.2
into /etc/portage/package.mask. But I don't think this would be necessary.


> 2) I've posted in the Multimedia item on the forums board about a
> certain problem I had with Pango, a known issue that is fixed with
> pango-1.29.5. I have read up on making my own overlays, but I'm
> wondering if there is a way to request an addition to the tree, or
> expedite such an addition? I'd rather for now rely on Portage than to
> get into my own interventions here.

I'd expect the maintainer of Pango to add an ebuild for this version. If
version 1.29.5 is very new, maybe you have to wait a little for that to
happen.

> 3) This brings me to the next question, which is: Geany for Mac OSX is
> available in other package managers, but is completely missing from the
> Gentoo tree; --search brings up nothing at all. I imagine I can install
> it, but I'm wondering first whether again it is possible to request that
> it be added to the Gentoo tree?

That's weird, it shows up here:

weird ~ # eix geany
* dev-util/geany
     Available versions:  0.19.2 (~)0.20 0.21 {{+vte}}
     Homepage:            http://www.geany.org
     Description:         GTK+ based fast and lightweight IDE

* dev-util/geany-plugins
     Available versions:  0.19 (~)0.20-r1 0.21.1 {{debugger devhelp
  enchant gpg gtkspell lua nls soup webkit}} Homepage:
  http://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins Description:         A
  collection of different plugins for Geany

Oh, you should definitely install app-portage/eix, if you don't have
already. emerge eix, then use eix-update to index your portage tree, and
use eix instead of emerge --search.

	Wonko