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Steve [Gentoo] wrote: |
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> Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? |
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> What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and |
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> specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? |
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At least a month and there can't be any major bugs reported to |
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bugs.gentoo.org. About specifics on Subversion you need to ask its |
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maintainer. It will stay masked as long as needed for the maintainer to |
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become sure that the package really is stable. |
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> Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. |
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> Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me |
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> getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an "emerge -uD world" |
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> in another few months? |
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No it would not. You are just changing the accepted the keywords for |
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Subversion. Portage always chooses the latest version with accepted |
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keywords. If just add dev-util/subversion you say that you will accept |
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every version marked as ~x86 or you can use =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 |
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to only mark one version. If you don't use version numbers, you will |
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always update to the latest version. If you lock down the version |
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number, the next time you will update if after there is a version |
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greater then 1.2.1, which is marked stable (x86). |
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> I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server |
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> rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on |
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> other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration.... so |
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> (other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest |
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> Subversion. |
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> [Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more |
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> demanding than mine!. :-) ] |
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Gentoo is all about choice. |
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> Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to |
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> get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more |
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> questions from me about Gentoo. I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out |
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> the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify |
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> systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that |
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> I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future |
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> version newer than that which becomes unmasked. Am I missing some other |
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> obvious things? I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the |
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> topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the |
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> questions I was thinking. |
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Hopefully I answered this. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri Räty (betelgeuse@freenode) |
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