Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update to portage 2.2
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:29:22
Message-Id: 200902252229.15373.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update to portage 2.2 by Momesso Andrea
1 On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:24:40PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote:
4 > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:03:36PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 > > > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:13 -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
6 > > > > > >> Hi! I want to update portage to get new features, mostly sets
7 > > > > > >> for kde4.2.
8 > > > > >
9 > > > > > Hint: EAPI 2 are aquired using portage-2.1.6.7 . portage-2.2... are
10 > > > > > not stable yet.
11 > > > >
12 > > > > No, but they are stable, and required for sets as the OP wanted.
13 > > > >
14 > > > >
15 > > > > --
16 > > > > Neil Bothwick
17 > > > >
18 > > > > Why is the word abbreviation so long?
19 > > >
20 > > > Doesn't look really stable:
21 > > >
22 > > > # Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> (05 Jan 2009)
23 > > > # Portage 2.2 is masked due to known bugs in the
24 > > > # package sets and preserve-libs features.
25 > > >
26 > > > >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_pre
27 > >
28 > > as long as you don't use the preserved-libs feature (turn it off in
29 > > make.conf) you'll be fine.
30 >
31 > And what about the sets bug? Is it safe to use sets?
32
33 so far I haven't hit any set bugs - and I am using them a lot.
34
35 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259684
36
37 ok - I hit that one. But there is an easy workaround - editing the file by
38 hand.
39
40 you should look for portage bugs in the gentoo bugzilla and decide for
41 yourself.