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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 17:34:42 Tom Hendrikx wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: |
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> >> I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and |
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> >> currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. |
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> > Nevertheless, it isn't the latest version. To get that you need an entry |
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> > in package.unmask; then portage will be able to sort out far more complex |
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> > problems than the unmasked version can. Don't worry - many people here |
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> > have been doing this for many months, with no problems attributable to |
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> > portage. |
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> I'm not sure if upgrading portage to a masked version is a sane solution |
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> for the OP's issue (i.e. resolving a single dependency issue). |
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> Reading the error output from portage (and sometimes the ebuild) to |
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> solve the blocker (as people do who run a stable portage) would suffice, |
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> imho. |
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The list of benefits from using latest unstable portage is very long. |
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The list of persons running stable systems who have reported problems here |
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with latest unstable portage is very short, tending to zero in fact. |
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Whereas willy-nilly mixing stable and unstable is normally condemned as a bad |
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idea (with good reason), it generally considered OK with portage for the above |
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reason. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't contaminate the system |
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with legions of other unstable $STUFF |
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> As for the issue with openrc: |
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> =sys-apps/openrc-0.6.0-r1 depends on =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.87-r3, and |
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> both are in ~arch. Unmask both, emerge them, run etc-update and be fine. |
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Portage's blocker list has historically been confusing and difficult for users |
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to parse. They often don't know what to do - how many posts like that have you |
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answered where the answer is simply "unmerge this, merge that, merge world"? |
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It makes sense to me, probably to you too, and not much sense to a large chunk |
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of gentoo userland. Latest portage fixes all that and makes it a non-issue. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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