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walt <w41ter <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 |
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> because it was obviously(?) a mistake. |
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I believe you. But here's what I just experienced:: |
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I syncd a few hours ago. Now when I just went to upgrade I got this |
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gyration of the latest ncurses debacle:: |
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[ebuild U #] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5:0/5::gentoo [5.9-r4:0/0::gentoo] |
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[ebuild NS #] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99:5::gentoo [5.9-r4:0::gentoo] |
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OK so I masked off those to in package.mask. |
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I decided to up grade a few packages, one at a time. Upgrading openssl |
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got this response:: |
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>>> Emerging (1 of 2) sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1::gentoo |
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and it is not stable nor has it been unmasked. |
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Something really funky/flunky be happening with ncurses (again). |
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Now look:: |
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[ebuild NS ~] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r101:5::gentoo |
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[ebuild NS ~] sys-libs/ncurses-6.0:5/6::gentoo |
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Surely I can mask off these updates and stay with :: |
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sys-libs/ncurses- 5.9-r4 |
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For a while, till things settle a bit? Weird. I mask off a version |
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and a newer, later version appears. wtf? |
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> Who last updated ncurses, and why? |
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I believe you have 'hit the nail' dead center. Maybe a systemd requirement |
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perhaps? I do not know. I know, systemd is running git now? |
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James |
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