On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:24:40PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:03:36PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:13 -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > > > >> Hi! I want to update portage to get new features, mostly sets > > > > > >> for kde4.2. > > > > > > > > > > Hint: EAPI 2 are aquired using portage-2.1.6.7 . portage-2.2... are > > > > > not stable yet. > > > > > > > > No, but they are stable, and required for sets as the OP wanted. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Neil Bothwick > > > > > > > > Why is the word abbreviation so long? > > > > > > Doesn't look really stable: > > > > > > # Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> (05 Jan 2009) > > > # Portage 2.2 is masked due to known bugs in the > > > # package sets and preserve-libs features. > > > > > > >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_pre > > > > as long as you don't use the preserved-libs feature (turn it off in > > make.conf) you'll be fine. > > And what about the sets bug? Is it safe to use sets?
so far I haven't hit any set bugs - and I am using them a lot. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259684 ok - I hit that one. But there is an easy workaround - editing the file by hand. you should look for portage bugs in the gentoo bugzilla and decide for yourself.
