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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:42:32
Message-Id: 87h8qd69hf.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion by John Blinka
1 On Mon, Feb 19 2018, John Blinka wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote:
6 >>
7 >> > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote:
8 >>
9 >> Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk,
10 >> portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucash that
11 >> uses a solid new version of webkit-gtk. I have the new version of
12 >> webkit-gtk, but really want to delay installing the testing gnucash.
13 >
14 >
15 > Looks like gnucash-2.7.4-r1 is now in the stable branch of portage despite
16 > gnucash declaring “This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in
17 > production” (their caps, not mine). I’ve masked it and reverted to
18 > icu58.2-r1 by masking icu-60.2. The older icu allows
19 > webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 to build, and gives me a version of gnucash which
20 > I’ve used for a long time and trust. Not going to upgrade irreversibly to
21 > a version which the authors themselves don’t trust. My 2 cents.
22 >
23 > John
24
25 Thanks for the heads up.
26
27 I synced this morning and ~2.7.4 was highest number so the stable -r1
28 must have been today.
29
30 I am (I believe like you) running gnucash-2.6.15.
31
32 I also am running webkit-gtk 2.4.11-r200. The failure to build is
33 a reinstall
34
35 [ebuild rR ] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200
36
37 presumably due to the upgrade of icu.
38
39 I will be on the lookout for the listed-as-stable-declared-unstable
40 gnucash-2.7.
41
42 Thanks again for the heads up.
43
44 allan gottlieb