Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

[allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Mon, Feb 19 2018, John Blinka wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote:
>>
>> > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote:
>>
>>     Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk,
>>     portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucash that
>>     uses a solid new version of webkit-gtk.  I have the new version of
>>     webkit-gtk, but really want to delay installing the testing gnucash.
>
>
> Looks like gnucash-2.7.4-r1 is now in the stable branch of portage despite
> gnucash declaring “This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in
> production” (their caps, not mine).  I’ve masked it and reverted to
> icu58.2-r1 by masking icu-60.2.  The older icu allows
> webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 to build, and gives me a version of gnucash which
> I’ve used for a long time and trust.  Not going to upgrade irreversibly to
> a version which the authors themselves don’t trust.  My 2 cents.
>
> John

Thanks for the heads up.

I synced this morning and ~2.7.4 was highest number so the stable -r1
must have been today.

I am (I believe like you) running gnucash-2.6.15.

I also am running webkit-gtk 2.4.11-r200.  The failure to build is
a reinstall

      [ebuild  rR    ] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 

presumably due to the upgrade of icu.

I will be on the lookout for the listed-as-stable-declared-unstable
gnucash-2.7.

Thanks again for the heads up.

allan gottlieb