From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt9kz-0007UA-NY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:52:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EJpWuh011957; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:51:32 GMT Received: from mail.shic.lan (adsl.195-248-105-109.dial.hot.broadband.adsl.broadbandonly.co.uk [195.248.105.109]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EJlwXn022608 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:47:58 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shic.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCD348C13 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:47:55 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42D6C170.6090402@shic.co.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:48:00 +0100 From: "Steve [Gentoo]" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2 References: <42D6859E.6050406@shic.co.uk> <42D6A049.8080609@gmx.net> <42D6ACFB.3010507@shic.co.uk> <42D6B054.7050606@saunalahti.fi> In-Reply-To: <42D6B054.7050606@saunalahti.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j6EJpWv0011957 X-Archives-Salt: 4e850301-3beb-4850-b687-2f928e50a9ce X-Archives-Hash: d2c3bc4289334e37124d05fe5ebe9e3a Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >>What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and >>specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? >> =20 >> >At least a month and there can't be any major bugs reported to >bugs.gentoo.org. About specifics on Subversion you need to ask its >maintainer. It will stay masked as long as needed for the maintainer to = become sure that the package really is stable. > =20 > Hmmm... I suppose that suggests there were some major bugs... using=20 bugs.gentoo.org is new to me - it seems that's where I was missing a=20 pointer. Thanks again. I didn't want to pester the maintainer with=20 superfluous questions as to why packages are masked. It seems a pity=20 that all the information isn't available on one page... using=20 packages.gentoo.org and bugs.gentoo.org together gives the right info -=20 even if it requires a little bit more effort. :-) I'll be sure to see=20 if I can offer feedback to the bugzilla database if I find something=20 relevant to add. >>Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future.=20 >>Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me get= ting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an "emerge -uD world" in a= nother few months? >> =20 >> >No it would not. You are just changing the accepted the keywords for >Subversion. Portage always chooses the latest version with accepted >keywords. If just add dev-util/subversion you say that you will accept >every version marked as ~x86 or you can use =3Ddev-util/subversion-1.2.1 >to only mark one version. If you don't use version numbers, you will >always update to the latest version. If you lock down the version >number, the next time you will update if after there is a version >greater then 1.2.1, which is marked stable (x86). > =20 > Ah, ha. That sounds sensible - now I follow. My USE confusion is=20 probably that I'd referred to some wrong/out-of-date documentation...=20 when I use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in place of USE it now behaves just how I had=20 previously expected it should have done. # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=3D"~x86" emerge -uD subversion This does what I'd originally intended to try... (and doesn't force me=20 to remember how to spell the dependencies.) I assume there's no=20 significant advantage I've missed in preferring to use the=20 package.keywords file instead? >Hopefully I answered this. > =20 > I think you did... Thanks! --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list