Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct version of ncurses on ~amd64 now?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 31/08/2015 23:13, walt wrote:
> I ask this strange question because this (badly broken) machine once
> again flipped between 6.0 and 6.0-r1 after rsyncing this morning.
>
> First, it emerged 6.0, which turned out to be almost catastrophic
> because the qmerge phase of the emerge failed (although it claimed
> success afterwards) and deleted the entire /usr/share/terminfo
> subdirectory.  That was fun, but I won't bore you with the details.
> (The ncurses-6.0 files in /lib64 are dated August 28, BTW.)
>
> Right now emerge tries to install ncurses-6.0-r1 but the 32-bit part of
> the build fails because emerge never ran make in the work/cross/progs
> directory, and so the 32-bit tools didn't get compiled.
>
> I hacked around this by running make in that directory manually, which
> allowed the ebuild install and ebuild package phases to succeed.
>
> Now I have an ncurses-6.0-r1 binary package available but I'm too scared
> to install it because I might need to kill myself afterwards :/
>
> Any suggestions before I take the plunge?  Is ncurses-6.0-r1 the right
> version as of today, Aug 31?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>



This machine was entirely unaffected by all the recent ncurses issues:

[I] sys-libs/ncurses
     Available versions:
     (0)    5.9-r3 (~)5.9-r4 5.9-r5(0/5) (~)6.0-r1(0/6)
     (5)    5.9-r99(5/5) (~)5.9-r101(5/5) (~)6.0(5/6)
       {ada +cxx debug doc gpm minimal profile static-libs test threads
tinfo trace unicode ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32
64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
     Installed versions:  6.0-r1(12:52:29 30/08/2015)(cxx gpm threads
unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -static-libs -test -tinfo
-trace ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64"
ABI_X86="32 64 -x32")
     Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
     Description:         console display library

So 6.0-r1 works completely relaible on at least one Gentoo machine in
this world :-)



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Alan McKinnon
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