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Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>>(other) Funny thing is, last I heard, you were planning to mask the |
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>>"upgrade" versions of GCC. If you did that, of /course/ you are no |
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>>longer offered upgrades, since that's the point of masking (to mark a |
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>>package as "unavailable to be installed on this computer"). |
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>>gcc-3.4.5-r1 is the most recent stable; current unstable (~x86) is |
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>>3.4.6, 4.0 is masked (hard-masked), so you wouldn't see it anyway. |
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>>So I'm guessing you are running stable only, and masked the most recent |
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>>stable version explicitly (3.4.5-r1)? If you masked only that version in |
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>>/etc/portage/package.mask, like so |
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>>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1 |
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>>you won't see an offer to update until 3.4.6 goes stable; if you masked |
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>>all versions above your current version, as in |
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>>| > =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1 |
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>>you won't see an offer to update ever, until you adjust the mask. |
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>>Although when 4.0 makes it into the tree, it might use a different slot, |
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>>so that might make you an offer. |
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>>But as far as I know, 3.4.5-r1 is still alive and kicking in the tree. |
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>>Holly |
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Well, I didn't get around to changing anything in the mask file so |
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either it did it and I forgot it or some ghost came in and took care of |
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it for me. ;-) I guess since it was a minor update it won't matter anyway. |
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Nice to hear from you again though Holly. Take Care. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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