-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? > What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and > specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
At least a month and there can't be any major bugs reported to bugs.gentoo.org. About specifics on Subversion you need to ask its maintainer. It will stay masked as long as needed for the maintainer to become sure that the package really is stable. > Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. > Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me > getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an "emerge -uD world" > in another few months? No it would not. You are just changing the accepted the keywords for Subversion. Portage always chooses the latest version with accepted keywords. If just add dev-util/subversion you say that you will accept every version marked as ~x86 or you can use =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 to only mark one version. If you don't use version numbers, you will always update to the latest version. If you lock down the version number, the next time you will update if after there is a version greater then 1.2.1, which is marked stable (x86). > I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server > rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on > other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration.... so > (other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest > Subversion. > [Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more > demanding than mine!. :-) ] Gentoo is all about choice. > > Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to > get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more > questions from me about Gentoo. I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out > the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify > systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that > I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future > version newer than that which becomes unmasked. Am I missing some other > obvious things? I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the > topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the > questions I was thinking. > > Hopefully I answered this. Regards, Petteri Räty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1rBTcxLzpIGCsLQRAnfOAKCSwFJDenGWoGRiZWmvS/K67WGP9wCfZrjz tTtBWzlJKXu5kwfNJUfgwQo= =cdsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
