Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade

[Bob Thomas]

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Michael Cummings wrote:
| Let me step in for a sec. This is my fault (read: gentoo's perl guy atm)
|
| The unmasking of 5.8 was *mostly* an accident. The ebuild needs a touch
| up right now to assist you with fixing packages. There are still one or
| two upstream problems with perl 5.8 (that is, packages that use the
| libperl.so to compile against that aren't ready for 5.8 yet), and that I
| can't help. Really, the only reason to keep 5.8 in glass right this
| second is that there are other packages that your probably have
| installed that used the libperl.so to compile against when portage saw
| that you had perl, that need to be re-emerged. The list isn't as simple
| as "anything that deps perl," but it's pretty close, and once re-emerged
| everything is good again. For instance, vim, if it sees perl, will
| compile a portion against libperl.so and will break if you upgrade your
| perl on it. Re-emerging vim fixes the problem immediately.
|
| So the short of it is, *sorry about this*, the long of it is that
| perl-5.6.1 will be completely fixed (anyone who had problems with
| modules going to the wrong dirs will know what that means) and 5.8, once
| the post-install config is ready, will be ready for ~arch testing.
|
| *whew*
|
| That make any sense? Let me know,
|
| Mike
|
| On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:48:22PM -0500, Bob Thomas wrote:
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|>Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
|>| It is because perl 5.8.0 is masked.  You could trying runing the
|>| unstable/testing version, ~.
|>|
|>| Tom Veldhouse
|>|
|>| ----- Original Message -----
|>| From: "Bob Thomas" <gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu>
|>| To: "gentoo-dev" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
|>| Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:32 PM
|>| Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade
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|>|>When I run emerge -up world I get the following:
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|>|>[ebuild    UD] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r7 [5.8.0-r3]
|>|>[ebuild    UD] app-crypt/gnupg-1.0.7 [1.2.1-r0]
|>|>[ebuild    UD] net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3 [1.2.1-r1]
|>|>
|>|>These are masked packages that I installed earlier today. These are not
|>|>the only masked packages that I currently have installed, but it's what
|>|>I've installed today. Is it a coincidence that these are packages that I
|>|>just installed (and there's something special about them), or could this
|>|>be something that recently changed in Portage (the "D" is new to me) ?
|>|>
|>|>- --
|>|>Robert Thomas
|>|>Georgia Institute of Technology
|>|>Email: gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu
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|>It isn't masked on my box (in package.mask), it's a testing package
|>(~arch). I emerged the new nvidia drivers and now it wants me to
|>downgrade them too, and they're listed above perl.
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Um, so, I need to go back to 5.6.1 then, right? I'm in the middle of
rebuilding everything right now (new CFLAGS). I hope I didn't mess
anything up by having 5.8 installed :-/

So what about all the other stuff (nVidia, Mozilla, . . .)? I understand
waht happened with perl (it's ok, really :-p), but how come every other
testing package I've merged recently shows up when I do a "emerge -up
world"? Is there a similar story behind all of those others? Right now
emerge -up world shows:

[ebuild    UD] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 [1.0.4191-r0]
[ebuild    UD] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.3123 [1.0.4191-r0]
[ebuild    UD] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r7 [5.8.0-r3]
[ebuild    UD] net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3 [1.2.1-r1]
[ebuild    UD] app-crypt/gnupg-1.0.7 [1.2.1-r0]

I'm not giving up those new nVidia drivers

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Robert Thomas
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu
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