Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? > What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and > specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
I *think* it is something along the lines of "30 days without a bug", not 100% sure though. >> Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords >> (create this file if it doesn't exist) : >> >> =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 >> =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5 ~x86 >> =dev-libs/apr-0.9.5 ~x86 >> >> > In one way this looks better than my fiddling with USE - however I'm > reluctant to choose specific versions in a durable configuration file. > Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. > Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me > getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an "emerge -uD world" > in another few months? the line: =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 means that you tell portage that you'll accept subversion, version 1.2.1 exactly, with a keyword of '~x86'. You can use '>=' instead of '=', which means any version equal or greater than 1.2.1. the two following lines were the two dependencies i found by trying 'emerge -uD subversion'. once 1.3 or any version higher than 1.2.1 becomes stable (marked 'x86'), it will be considered by portage as well and will be merged. Hope that helps, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
