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On Montag 01 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Okay, I'm slightly confused. Now, granted, I've been away from the |
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> computer for 5 days, but I'm pretty sure that's not enough to go soft in |
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> the head. I sync'd portage this morning, and as usual get the 'there's |
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> a new version of portage available.... message. This is typical, since, |
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> in order to upgrade to KDE4.1.3 I needed to use the ~amd64 version of |
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> pertage (now at 2.2_rc13 on my system). However, I figured I needed to |
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> check to see if there was a newer one in ~amd64 just to keep up and this |
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> is what I got for output: |
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> octavian ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -s portage |
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> * sys-apps/portage |
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> Latest version available: 2.1.6_rc2 |
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> Latest version installed: 2.2_rc13 |
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> Size of files: 564 kB |
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> Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml |
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> Description: Portage is the package management and distribution |
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> system for Gentoo |
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> License: GPL-2 |
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> Now, I'm not a math wiz, but IIRC 2.2 is greater than 2.1, right? So, |
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> what's the deal here? I'm hesitant to upgrade (as it might be a |
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> DOWNgrade), but if there's some behind the scenes changes going on, I'd |
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> like to know that too. |
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> So, what do I do? |
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just read the Changelog. Really, and read the manual about 'masked packages'. |
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2.2_rc was masked to force people to test 2.1.6_rc. Just unmask 2.2 is you |
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want to use it. |
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Was it a good decision? IMHO not, but it can be easily solved. |
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