Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, should it upgrade?

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Nagatoro wrote:

>Neil Bothwick wrote:
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>>On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:14 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
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>>>Assuming it's the gcc-3.4.5-r1 update you're considering postponing,
>>>you could just:
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>>># echo '>sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5' >> /etc/portage/package.mask
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>>>and just remove that line when you're ready to upgrade.  It's a *far* 
>>>better idea than trying to modify your profile.
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>>echo '=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1' >> /etc/portage/package.mask is better if you only want to postpone this upgrade. Your suggestion blocks all future upgrades.
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>Why don't upgrade? As far as I know upgrading gcc isn't a big deal. It
>was just the 3.3.x -> 3.4.x that was due to that the api for c++ had
>changed.
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Oh, I thought it was a big deal.  That's why I was wanting to wait. 
Funny thing is, it don't want to upgrade now so maybe it had a bug and
they set it back again or something, or I just missed it and upgraded
anyway.  ;-)

Dale
:-)
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