Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <lists@×××××.net> wrote about 'Re: 
[gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:18 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:01 -0500, mail wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:06 +0100, Christoph Nodes wrote:
> > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166374
> > >
> > > OK, thats Great.
> > > In the mean time, it is almost tax season. Is there a simple way to
> > > emerge a working version for now?
> >
> > The easiest solution is to emerge the
> > ~arch g-wrap, which uses glib 2.x and works fine.
>
> I'n not too familiar with emerging things like that. How do I emerge a
> ~arch g-wrap? do I put something special in /etc/portage/package.use ?

Well, you should have read the relevant documentation toward the end of 
your Gentoo install; I believe the section of the handbook is "Using 
Portage".

Assuming g-wrap is the only package that needs an ~arch version, something 
like:

echo 'dev-libs/g-wrap' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

and then a standard emerge of gnucash should work.  However, this might 
about with a "masked by missing keyword" error on some other package, 
which indicates you'll need the ~ARCH version of that package as well.  
Repeat the above procedure until you get all the ~ARCH versions you need.  
Keep in mind that ~ARCH packages are "testing" and may be as stable as the 
standard (ARCH) packages.

I strongly encourage you to read the relevant documentation, since the 
instructions I've provided above will cause emerge to consistently want to 
upgrade g-wrap (and any other ~ARCH packages you need) to the latest ~ARCH 
version, which may or may not be what you want.  In particular, you may 
want to so with a version-limited atom, like '~dev-libs/g-wrap-1.9.6' 
instead of the "raw" atom 'dev-libs/g-wrap'.

Relevant documentation includes sections of the Gentoo Handbook as well has 
the portage(5), make.conf(5), emerge(1), and ebuild(1) man pages.

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