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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:26:12 -0400
"Daniel Ibn Zayd" <daniel.ibnzayd@××××××××××.com> wrote:

> I've been working with Gentoo Prefix/Portage on a Mac Powerbook G4
> for the past few weeks, and other than a few minor glitches easily
> rectified, I'm extremely happy with the way it works and works well.
>
> I do have a few minor questions concerning the appearance of updates
> to ebuilds, as well as how gentoo determines what is available to my
> system/what needs upgrading....
>
> 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?

It wants to install into a new SLOT, which is different from a mere
upgrade.

A SLOT is a range of version that can live happily with other versions
of the same software in different SLOTS (they usually go into different
directory prefixes or have files with different names so there's no
conflict).

You want to mask the entire SLOT=4, this should do it:

echo "sys-devel/binutils-apple:4" > /etc/portage/package.mask

Adapt as necessary if you use a mask directory rather than a single
file 

> 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.

Log a version-bump request at http://bugs.gentoo.org

> 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?

File a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. This is different from a version bump
above in that if no-one feels like maintaining it, it simply won't
happen.

Mention in your bug that you are a newbie and not up to scratch on
maintaining ebuilds yet. if the software installs just fine with the
usual ./configure && make && make install that will increase the odds
of a dev making an ebuild, so you should mention this if it's the case.



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com