Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-20 Thread b.n.
econti ha scritto: But reading the message it seemed to me to be possible to fix the bug and that the solution was in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265. The interpretation of the message is If you are able to help us fixing the bug, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/...; Usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-19 Thread econti
Albert Hopkins ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page of gentoo? I really don't

[gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread econti
Hi all, even if I have been using gentoo for 2 years surely I know to be a newbie again. ;-( Yesterday, upgrading the portage and after an emerge -NDpvu world I received the following massage: Calculating world dependencies / !!! The following installed packages are masked: -

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page of gentoo? I really don't understand your question, but I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:29:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:09 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: Isn't there also the option of leaving the existing package installed until the bug is fixed? If the package is currently working for him (the bug may be in some section of the program he seldom uses or it may only rear its head