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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:15 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> On 27/11/17 18:44, Christopher Head wrote: |
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>> For those of us who run mostly stable systems, there is one question I don’t know a good answer to. |
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>> If I add a specific version of a game to package.accept_keywords, I will get that version forever. That’s not really what I want: I prefer to stay up to date as new versions are packaged. |
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>> If I add just a cat/pkg to p.a_k, Portage will always try to pull in the latest version. If that version has some unstable dependencies which I haven’t also accepted, Portage will yell at me. An example of this is games-emulation/mednafen-0.9.46 depending on dev-libs/lzo-2.10, the latter of which is unstable. |
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>> What I really want to install is, “the latest version of the package that doesn’t pull in any deps that aren’t available (stable or accepted),” but I don’t know any way to tell Portage that. Am I missing something, or is that indeed impossible? |
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> Sounds to me a failure in adhering to the stabilisation criterion that |
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> state that all deps must be stabilised FIRST .. as the bugzilla |
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> stable-bot will now automagically check ... |
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Nobody is stabilizing anything. That is the whole reason he raised |
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that concern. He wants to use ~arch versions of games, with stable |
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dependencies. |
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To answer his question, there is not any way out-of-the-box to tell |
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portage to install the latest ~arch version of a package that has only |
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stable or already-accepted dependencies. Certainly it should be |
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possible to build such a feature, but it doesn't exist today. |
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