Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade

[Michael Cummings]

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, ~.
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> | Tom Veldhouse
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> | 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) ?
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> |>- --
> |>Robert Thomas
> |>Georgia Institute of Technology
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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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