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On Sat, Feb 17 2018, John Blinka wrote: |
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> Hi, all, |
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> A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. |
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> Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild. |
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> In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always |
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> been a very fragile build. I've put way too much time into wrestling |
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> with it and I'd like to get rid of it. There's a newer version: |
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> webkit-gtk-2.18.6, which builds with no problems. |
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> The only package on my system that needs webkit-gtk is gnucash. All |
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> of the stable ebuilds for gnucash contain this line |
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> >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2 |
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> And all of the versions of webkit-gtk in portage satisfy this condition. |
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I am in the same situation and I believe a number of other are as well. |
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The old webkit-gtk is approaching end-of-life and the new gnucash that |
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uses the new webkit-gtk is (they say) soon to become gentoo stable. |
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NOTE. The new gnucash uses a new database format so you should back up |
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your old database before updating gnucash (see the news item). |
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I am waiting for the new gnucash to become stable (and will probably |
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wait a little more). I back up the gnucash database daily. I would be |
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quite put out if gnucash was unavailable for even a modest time period. |
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What I do in the meantime is |
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emerge --update --pretend @world |
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and then manually |
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emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk |
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I do a similar procedure for |
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emerge @preserved rebuild |
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allan |