Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com said: I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the arch manager would notice? The general policy is here: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html#moving-from-~arch-to-arch Open a bug and let the package maintainer decide if that version should go stable yet, or not at all. We don't mark every version of each package stable since that would waste a lot of cycles all around. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com
Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions
Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com said: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be done. But seriously, why staying with 4.1? it's old... and 4.3 was a nice release... Well, for me, media-plugins/mytharchive won't compile with gcc 4.3. Hopefully things will change with the next mythtv release. Please file a bug so we actually know about the problem and can fix it :) https://bugs.gentoo.org/ -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgp04ctridxH3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jason Weisberger wrote: I figure upgrading to GCC 4.1.1 from 3.4.5 wouldn't be such a pain, right? WRONG. Yes, very much so. See my Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required? thread. Yea, since the soname was the same, I was under the impression that mixing would be fine, and I never ran into a problem. Now that I have unmasked it and more people are testing, I see that people are actually running into issues. So, my mistake. Sorry. If you are doing any upgrade of GCC that is something like 3.3-3.4, or 3.4-4.1, recompiling everything is probably a good first step to ensuring your system will be sane. We try to cut down on work that people will have to do and see if mixed installs will work, but in this case, I was wrong that you would be able to do that. If these are the type of problems we're going to see with 4.1.1, I would have to vote that it stay masked. Yep. I've yet to see cause for saying this. Moving to a completely new version of gcc, as in 3.x - 4.x, is a huge move. I think the small amount of problems that we are seeing now is great, and if you are using ~arch, you should expect little bumps in the road. We can only do so much testing in p.mask, and all of the people using it there were telling me that it was working fine for them. Testing isn't even the word for this so far. I had to revert back to my 3.4.5 gcc and re-emerge system after having too many errors to warrant continuing. Hm. But there are people, who ran emerge -e world with gcc 4.1.1 and don't have problems. I suppose you'll only have problems, when you mix 3.x and 4.x. Just following the GCC Upgrading Guide [1], and you should be fine. There will always be a few people that run into problems, and there isn't much we can do about that. If you think you found a real bug, please report it, or we can't ever fix it. [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpmcrrS3Z3f2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup
Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1? I noticed the same thing. There is a bug open about it on bugs.gentoo.org I believe, but the workaround for now is: mv ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt.old touch ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst That worked for me atleast. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpG0ro05Ezvp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] which video card for dell2005fpw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm looking for recommendations for a new video card. Obviously something that works well with Linux in general and Gentoo in particular. Any suggestions? I have two of these LCDs and got an Nvidia 6600 with two DVI connectors. I haven't had a problem with it yet, and it didn't cost that much. Should I prefer a digital interface over the analog? Definitely digital. Before I got the other card I had one monitor hooked up to analog and the other digital and the difference was very obvious to me. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpaySW9JUuU3.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] GCC-3.4 will be marked stable in ~1 hour on x86
GCC 3.4 has finally been marked stable on x86. No one will have their compiler automatically switched to gcc-3.4 after it is installed, so you can handle the migration to using it as your system compiler when you have time. To assist you in the migration we have made a GCC migration guide[1]. For support issues, #gentoo is the place to receive help. Bugs found in the course of this upgrade should be filed under the Gentoo Linux product, and GCC Porting component on Gentoo's Bugzilla[2]. That being said, I will be committing it in approximately 1 hour, which means you will need to wait for it to get all of the mirrors, which will take a bit longer after that. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpemgIjvhqWz.pgp Description: PGP signature
