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Hi, |
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I was familiar with this process, just didn't think it applied to these |
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particular packages. The ebuild version specification system is a bit tough |
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to get used to: version numbers in particular. |
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Thanks! |
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Zack. |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "William Hubbs" <williamh@g.o> |
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To: <gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:05 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] out-of-date ebuilds? |
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> Hi Zack, |
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> first off, are you familiar with the masked packages and how to use |
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> them? Some of the packages you want might not be marked stable yet. |
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> Basically, if you want to use something that isn't stable, you can do |
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> something like this: |
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> echo app-accessibility/emacspeak >> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> You can substitute any other package you want to use for |
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> app-accessibility/emacspeak, it was just an example. If there are new |
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> versions of packages that you know about that are not in the tree, you |
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> can file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump for |
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> the package. |
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> The way to get things moved to stable is to use them and report problems |
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> to the bugzilla address I gave above. If packages do not have bugs |
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> open, they will eventually be marked stable. |
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> Thanks, |
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> William |
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> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:56:19PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> (For some reason my emails to the list haven't been getting through |
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>> using my old address, so I subscribed this one...) |
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>> I've noticed that several accessibility-related ebuilds are out of sync |
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>> with the latest available from the upstream sources. Orca comes to mind, |
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>> as does Emacspeak and Speechd-El. I'm not terribly familiar with the |
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>> Gentoo ebuild creation process, nor with who, if anyone, is supposed to |
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>> maintain these. I do notice, for instance, that Orca is at 2.1 upstream |
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>> and 1.00 here. I don't want to fall behind, if possible, in terms of |
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>> features and such. |
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>> Is this an issue which I should report elsewhere? Should I try to make |
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>> ebuilds for these packages myself? |
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>> Thanks much, |
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>> Zack. |
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> William Hubbs |
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> gentoo accessibility team lead |
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