On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:05 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure': > > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 04:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Friday 23 February 2007 16:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > > > > > > > > [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure': > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > but none of the masking or keywords work. It seems that > > > > > gnucash is dead. > > > > > I wonder why it is in portage at all? > > > > > > Nope. app-office/gnucash is not dead: > > > > > > I had to install the following packages to get gnucash working: > > > > glib is 2.5 installed so I don't know why gnucash needs a broken 1.2? > > Because those two versions are anywhere near source or binary compatible. > Glib changed significantly between 1.x and 2.x, so that programs written > against 1.x have to be non-trivially ported to 2.x. > > I'm also not sure if there is any way to support 1.x and 2.x of glib from > the same codebase. If not, that would make migration doubly difficult. > > > 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? > > Yes. Clearly, you are incapable of following our directions without a bit > more guidance or doing any independent research on the problem. I can > provide that guidance for the low price of 28.50 USD an hour, with a > minimum charge of 4 hours; you'll have gnucash installed at the end or no > charge at all. To get started, I'll need your payment information and the > contents of /etc/portage/package.* and /etc/make.conf and the output > of 'emerge --info', 'ls /etc/portage', 'ls -d /etc/make.profile'; I > believe the list would prefer you send this information with private > email. > > For a more expensive, but very reasonable 42.75 USD an hour, you can just > give me root access to your Gentoo box(es) and I'll fix them all. While > you do take a bit of a risk (I can do anything with root access, right?), > since my access is part of a business arragement my liability for damage I > cause, especially intentionally, just went up 10x (or more), at least in > my jurisdiction. > > > If this is a but, won't it be > > fixed in some new version of portage? > > There *a* bug covered at the top of the thread. It is (1) not a bug with > portage, but rather a single package and (2) not likely to get fix since > that version of the package depends on (broken) glib 1.x. >
Thanks Boyd, for your generous offer! I will take a bit more time and read through the gentoo docs again. If I run out of time, I will take you up on that! Thanks again rick -- [email protected] mailing list
