Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Tero Grundström wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
>>
>>> For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge 
>>> -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one 
>>> week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. 
>>> Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior?
>>>
>>
>> There's a portage bug that fits that description: 
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13632.  When I encounter this I 
>> simply package mask the lower versions.
>>
>> mkdir /etc/portage
>> echo "<gnome-extra/libgsf-1.12.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
> 
> 
> That is not the correct way as this bug is caused by packages not 
> functioning correctly with *newer* versions. In this case gnumeric 
> doesn't like libgsf versions above 1.10.
> 
> If you think gnumeric does work well with the newest version of libgsf 
> and that the package maintainer is setting wrongly the dependency 
> version, please file a bug.
> 

Okay, my mistake.  Actually, now that you mention it, it turns out that I edited the ebuild myself to have RDEPEND=">=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.10" in my overlay.  I'm not sure whether or not it causes negative consequences but since I rarely (if ever) use gnumeric, I'm not presently concerned ;-).

Zac
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