From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B75251382C5 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED7F2E0B65; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.cims.nyu.edu (MX.CIMS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F737E0B43 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w1I19bgK019895 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be5603.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.86.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w1I19a87025972 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:37 -0500 Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B988458E2; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:36 -0500 (EST) From: allan gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion References: Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Blinka's message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:23:13 -0500") Message-ID: <87371zt86n.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:38 -0500 (EST) for IP:'128.122.49.97' DOMAIN:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' HELO:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' FROM:'gottlieb@nyu.edu' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:09:38 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.80 on 128.122.49.99 X-Archives-Salt: d168e876-4ab0-4b1d-b949-076fa6b9387d X-Archives-Hash: 7c626c2cbf84bb2783771e8cfe7a3717 On Sat, Feb 17 2018, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. > Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild. > > In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always > been a very fragile build. I've put way too much time into wrestling > with it and I'd like to get rid of it. There's a newer version: > webkit-gtk-2.18.6, which builds with no problems. > > The only package on my system that needs webkit-gtk is gnucash. All > of the stable ebuilds for gnucash contain this line > >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2 > And all of the versions of webkit-gtk in portage satisfy this condition. I am in the same situation and I believe a number of other are as well. The old webkit-gtk is approaching end-of-life and the new gnucash that uses the new webkit-gtk is (they say) soon to become gentoo stable. NOTE. The new gnucash uses a new database format so you should back up your old database before updating gnucash (see the news item). I am waiting for the new gnucash to become stable (and will probably wait a little more). I back up the gnucash database daily. I would be quite put out if gnucash was unavailable for even a modest time period. What I do in the meantime is emerge --update --pretend @world and then manually emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk I do a similar procedure for emerge @preserved rebuild allan