[gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

[gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

[Danny Hallwood]

Cheers Bret, 

I was unaware that a ~ signified the package as unstable. 

On the same note:
Anybody know why acct has been marked as unstable, Debian class this as
mature and it does not appear to have had code update for 5 years.
I have checked the Gentoo bugzilla and found one entry relating to acct,
this is a request to have it included. 

Cheers, 
Danny

-----Original Message-----
From: brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] 
Sent: 24 February 2003 13:22
To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

THe ~x86 and ~ppc show it's not stable - hence masked. 
 The ~ means that architecture is unstable.

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:20:57 -0000
  "Danny Hallwood" <Danny.Hallwood@ioko365.com> wrote:
>Hi Bret
>
>I cant see where the ebuild has masked this, please find 
>a copy of the
>ebuild below:
>
>Cheers, 
>Danny
>
># Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
># Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public 
>License v2
># $Header: 
>/home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/acct/acct-6.3.5.ebuild,v
>1.2 2003/02/13 15:46:37 vapier Exp $
>
>MY_P=${P/-/_}
>S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
>DESCRIPTION="GNU system accounting utilities"
>SRC_URI="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/acct/${MY_P}.orig.tar
.
>gz"
>HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/directory/acct.html"
>KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc"
>SLOT="0"
>LICENSE="GPL-2"
>
>DEPEND="virtual/glibc"
>
>src_unpack() {
>         unpack ${A}
>         cd ${S}
>
>         patch -p0 < ${FILESDIR}/${PF}-gentoo.diff
>}
>
>src_install() {
>         dobin ac last lastcomm
>         dosbin dump-utmp dump-acct accton sa
>         doinfo accounting.info
>         doman *.[18]
>         dodoc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS 
>README ToDo
>         dodir /var/account
>         exeinto /etc/init.d
>         newexe ${FILESDIR}/acct.rc6 acct
>}
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] 
>Sent: 24 February 2003 12:56
>To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge acct
>
>It's probably masked in the ebuild.
>
>On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:36:08 -0000
>   "Danny Hallwood" <Danny.Hallwood@ioko365.com> wrote:
>>Hi All, 
>>
>>  
>>
>>A quick question please can somebody explain why the 
>>following reports
>>it has been masked. I have greped for acct in
>>/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask and it does not appear 
>>to be masked. 
>>
>>  
>>
>>emerge acct
>>Calculating dependencies
>>!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "acct" have been 
>>masked.
>>
>>!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
>>
>>  
>>
>>Cheers, 
>>
>>Danny
>>
>>  
>>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Monday 24 February 2003 14:51, Danny Hallwood wrote:
> Cheers Bret,
>
> I was unaware that a ~ signified the package as unstable.
>
> On the same note:
> Anybody know why acct has been marked as unstable, Debian class this as
> mature and it does not appear to have had code update for 5 years.
> I have checked the Gentoo bugzilla and found one entry relating to acct,
> this is a request to have it included.

For one gentoo is in some state of freeze (not too strict though) for 
gentoo-1.4, and when packages have just been added they are made unstable 
first to discover possible problems with the ebuilds and the package code. 
The code aparently is rather stable, but the ebuild might have problems. 
That's why it starts life as testing

Paul

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RE: [gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

[Danny Hallwood]

Clearly a code freeze would explain it, though perhaps not the merging
gnome-2.2 and kde-3.1 ... 

If a devloper with access would remove the "~" from the ebuild for acct,
found under sys-apps/acct/ I'd be very appreciative. Or even if there is
anything I could do to help test the package, please let me know. 

Thanks for the info Paul, 

Cheers, 
Danny 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:gentoo-user@devrieze.net] 
Sent: 24 February 2003 14:42
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: [gentoo-user] emerge acct

On Monday 24 February 2003 14:51, Danny Hallwood wrote:
> Cheers Bret,
>
> I was unaware that a ~ signified the package as unstable.
>
> On the same note:
> Anybody know why acct has been marked as unstable, Debian class this
as
> mature and it does not appear to have had code update for 5 years.
> I have checked the Gentoo bugzilla and found one entry relating to
acct,
> this is a request to have it included.

For one gentoo is in some state of freeze (not too strict though) for 
gentoo-1.4, and when packages have just been added they are made
unstable 
first to discover possible problems with the ebuilds and the package
code. 
The code aparently is rather stable, but the ebuild might have problems.

That's why it starts life as testing

Paul

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Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv

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