Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2

["Steve [Gentoo]" <gentoo_steve@shic.co.uk>]

Marco Matthies wrote:

>Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
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Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time?  
What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and 
specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?

>Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords
>(create this file if it doesn't exist) :
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>=dev-util/subversion-1.2.1              ~x86
>=dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5                ~x86
>=dev-libs/apr-0.9.5                     ~x86
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In one way this looks better than my fiddling with USE - however I'm 
reluctant to choose specific versions in a durable configuration file.  
Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future.  
Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me 
getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an "emerge -uD world" 
in another few months?

>This was just info about portage, it is in no
>way any form of endorsement on the new version of subversion, as I
>haven't used it at all - and I don't know if you should be so impatient with a new version of a package that seems to be important to you and your data...
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I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server 
rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on 
other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration.... so 
(other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest 
Subversion.
[Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more 
demanding than mine!. :-) ]

Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to 
get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more 
questions from me about Gentoo.  I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out 
the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify 
systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that 
I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future 
version newer than that which becomes unmasked.  Am I missing some other 
obvious things?  I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the 
topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the 
questions I was thinking.


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