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 304BA1384C1 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95F8A14274; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU004-OMC1S18.hotmail.com (blu004-omc1s18.hotmail.com [65.55.116.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75140141A2 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU436-SMTP51 ([65.55.116.8]) by BLU004-OMC1S18.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:34:34 -0700 X-TMN: [BERFhiQluhu2JeTbvwp2py+/GcE9ghYG] X-Originating-Email: [frodriguez.developer@outlook.com] Message-ID: From: Fernando Rodriguez To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct version of ncurses on ~amd64 now? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:33:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/3.18.20; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <55E4D185.5030601@gmail.com> References: <20150831141305.0c0c6ee5@a6> <55E4D185.5030601@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Sep 2015 00:34:34.0090 (UTC) FILETIME=[F95BC4A0:01D0E44D] X-Archives-Salt: 6d91a7ce-8c83-4fbf-a695-fbdd7d06c8d9 X-Archives-Hash: 8426d1da1c6c6f68a183b360e7bf79da On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 12:13:25 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 :-) Hmm, I keyworded ncurses and this is what portage wants to do: [ebuild r U ~] sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1:0/6::gentoo [5.9-r5:0/5::fernan] USE="cxx doc gpm tinfo unicode -ada -debug -minimal -profile -static-libs {- test%} -threads% -trace" ABI_X86="32 (64) -x32" 3,059 KiB [ebuild U ~] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r101:5::gentoo [5.9-r99:5::gentoo] USE="gpm tinfo unicode (-ada%) (-cxx%*) (-static-libs%)" ABI_X86="32 (64) - x32" 0 KiB [ebuild rR ~] sys-devel/gdb-7.10::gentoo USE="client expat python server zlib -lzma -multitarget -nls {-test} -vanilla" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3" 0 KiB [ebuild rR ] app-misc/screen-4.3.1::gentoo USE="pam -debug -multiuser - nethack -selinux" 0 KiB [ebuild rR ] app-emulation/wine-1.6.2::gentoo USE="X alsa cups custom- cflags fontconfig gecko jpeg lcms ldap mp3 ncurses openal opengl perl png prelink pulseaudio run-exes samba ssl threads truetype udisks v4l xcomposite xinerama xml -capi -dos -gphoto2 -gsm -gstreamer -mono -nls -odbc -opencl - osmesa -oss -realtime -scanner -selinux {-test}" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" LINGUAS="-ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en -en_US -eo -es -fa -fi -fr -he -hi -hr -hu -it -ja -ko -lt -ml -nb_NO -nl -or -pa -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -sk - sl -sr_RS@cyrillic -sr_RS@latin -sv -te -th -tr -uk -wa -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 KiB That looks dangerous to me because the first build will upgrade my 5.9 installation to 6.0 and the second will reinstall 5.9. So what happens in between when I have no 5.9 installed but everything is linked against it? Won't it need bash to build the second one? What if the 2nd build fails? Will stuff linked against 5.9 work with 6.0? -- Fernando Rodriguez