Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 15:15:30 I wrote:
> On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 11:35:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Portasge is not complaining, ./configure is...
>
> True. I was speaking rather too loosely.
>
> > ...and you appear to be misreading the output between what ./configure
> > says with what eix & ebuilds says.
> >
> > This:
> >
> > No package 'mdds-1.0' found
> >
> > is not the same as this:
> >
> > $ eix mdds
> >
> >      (1)    (~)1.2.0(1/1.2){tbz2} **9999(1/9999)
> >
> > You don't have mdds-1.0, you have mdds-1.2 and there is no 1.0 candidate
> > available for installation. So this is an ebuild bug and should be
> > reported at bgo.
>
> Okay, I'll get on with that.

Already reported, yesterday; https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584994

> > My setup has all those packages installed since a long time, but trying
> > to re-install fails the same way as you. I reckon the maintainer missed
> > the build failure.
>
> Thanks for confirming what I thought, though I hadn't actually spelt it
> out.

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Rgds
Peter