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Rolf Offermanns wrote: |
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> Can anyone help me with the following? |
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> When I do an emerge -s flex, I get |
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> * sys-devel/flex |
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> Latest version available: 2.5.4a-r4 |
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> Latest version installed: 2.5.4a-r4 |
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> Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html |
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> Description: GNU lexical analyser generator |
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> There is an -r5 ebuild in the portage dir. and this version is not masked, |
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> so why isn't it listed in the search? |
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> Almost the same with the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild. This one is masked but if I |
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> unmask it, I still get the 4.2.0-r12 version listed. |
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> When i try to give the 4.2.1 ebuild on the emerge command line I get the |
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> following: |
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> These are the packages that I would merge, in order. |
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> Calculating dependencies | |
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> emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5" (from |
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> ebuild / x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 merge) have been masked. |
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> I am confused. What does that mean and where is it masked? |
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Possibly a different subject, but are people aware that flex is now up to |
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2.5.22? Many fix0rs and such have been incorporated into the new version. |
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Hit me up for the new maintainer's webpage. |
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Cheers, |
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Nicholas |
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