mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:29:04 -0500:
> I just did emerge --sync today and still there is no version 2.0.5 > of gnucash. When I do emerge --search gnucash, I get 2.0.1 as the latest > version available. Also the latest version of g-wrap that emerge gives > me is 1.3.4-r1. 1.9.6.r1 does not exist for me. That's almost certainly because keywords aren't set correctly, as you are seeing only the stable versions, not ~arch. If you don't see them using emerge search, try going into the portage tree on the actual filesystem and look there. Look under $PORTDIR/app-office/gnucash and $PORTDIR/dev- libs/g-wrap. ($PORTDIR replaced with the location of your portage dir on your system, of course.) If you see them there, you have them in the tree. You just haven't unmasked them properly. > I have glib is 2.5 installed so I don't know why gnucash needs a broken > 1.2? I tried every combination of keywords and masks and use flags so > far in this thread on 2 different computers and I get errors that the > packages can't be installed, and I keep running into the same bug as > the top of this thread. Am I missing something? As BSSJr explains, 1.2 is an incompatible earlier version, with different interfaces available to the programs that use it. Because the interfaces are different, programs using it can use one major version or the other, but can't switch between them without reworking their own code to use the other interface. Anyway, the problem would seem to be that your efforts at unmasking ~arch ebuilds aren't working. I'd suggest you go back and read the handbook, which covers unmasking using package.keyword and package.unmask in some detail. If it still doesn't work after that, perhaps as BSSJr suggested, it's time to get someone else to look at it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
