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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this?
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:15:42
Message-Id: 1558027.cBoh49snoN@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 11:35:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > Portasge is not complaining, ./configure is...
4
5 True. I was speaking rather too loosely.
6
7 > ...and you appear to be misreading the output between what ./configure says
8 > with what eix & ebuilds says.
9
10 > This:
11 >
12 > No package 'mdds-1.0' found
13 >
14 > is not the same as this:
15 >
16 > $ eix mdds
17 > (1) (~)1.2.0(1/1.2){tbz2} **9999(1/9999)
18 >
19 > You don't have mdds-1.0, you have mdds-1.2 and there is no 1.0 candidate
20 > available for installation. So this is an ebuild bug and should be
21 > reported at bgo.
22
23 Okay, I'll get on with that.
24
25 > My setup has all those packages installed since a long time, but trying
26 > to re-install fails the same way as you. I reckon the maintainer missed
27 > the build failure.
28
29 Thanks for confirming what I thought, though I hadn't actually spelt it out.
30
31 --
32 Rgds
33 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>