From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5431B1384C1 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93B2A142C6; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 475921426D for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibz8 with SMTP id z8so13692193wib.1 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:13:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vnn1PuiaVxTRzVl2mAi3ISkH00wYpBRqVwsYgHroZVI=; b=g0skn6zWxu2GqU2sgkhXhhyDWbDqRGvXrPDkg+uwFvLMcP5IVNSXRcClSz9DxqVyZm fvV52/kSgA0V7kp4dFGAYEvkauxmupv2BPaWsUYgmn8I2dJd0YAGNqI2z9TBjdOMCvHv GvznR2T7E0YqjVb6ag23A0a7H6xhabyJFXgGU5WaKWi6/DWJ/TQv3ts59Ne1RvsV8/Hi +3DpVJo8EnPANbX6IjB0dWZ+nwgfZ9Tf6sOopKUYeJyU+8sC+RppsCYN6HTtrmkaGbi7 fmQx1YJqqvBVxZRDDGPHu/WGQhb+T8OQRTPPU5tgSY6PGI5W5oxCxOV/vHPAVoyfdCQ8 H+Mg== X-Received: by 10.180.108.136 with SMTP id hk8mr648197wib.47.1441059217185; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-150-165.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.150.165]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id bi6sm24176435wjc.25.2015.08.31.15.13.35 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct version of ncurses on ~amd64 now? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20150831141305.0c0c6ee5@a6> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <55E4D185.5030601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:13:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150831141305.0c0c6ee5@a6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1bab6b5-a675-4880-ac3a-837bee03de4d X-Archives-Hash: e985c57cce4a44060cd65180ff058d84 On 31/08/2015 23:13, walt wrote: > I ask this strange question because this (badly broken) machine once > again flipped between 6.0 and 6.0-r1 after rsyncing this morning. > > First, it emerged 6.0, which turned out to be almost catastrophic > because the qmerge phase of the emerge failed (although it claimed > success afterwards) and deleted the entire /usr/share/terminfo > subdirectory. That was fun, but I won't bore you with the details. > (The ncurses-6.0 files in /lib64 are dated August 28, BTW.) > > Right now emerge tries to install ncurses-6.0-r1 but the 32-bit part of > the build fails because emerge never ran make in the work/cross/progs > directory, and so the 32-bit tools didn't get compiled. > > I hacked around this by running make in that directory manually, which > allowed the ebuild install and ebuild package phases to succeed. > > Now I have an ncurses-6.0-r1 binary package available but I'm too scared > to install it because I might need to kill myself afterwards :/ > > Any suggestions before I take the plunge? Is ncurses-6.0-r1 the right > version as of today, Aug 31? > > Thanks. > > > This machine was entirely unaffected by all the recent ncurses issues: [I] sys-libs/ncurses Available versions: (0) 5.9-r3 (~)5.9-r4 5.9-r5(0/5) (~)6.0-r1(0/6) (5) 5.9-r99(5/5) (~)5.9-r101(5/5) (~)6.0(5/6) {ada +cxx debug doc gpm minimal profile static-libs test threads tinfo trace unicode ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"} Installed versions: 6.0-r1(12:52:29 30/08/2015)(cxx gpm threads unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -static-libs -test -tinfo -trace ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32") Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ Description: console display library So 6.0-r1 works completely relaible on at least one Gentoo machine in this world :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com