On Sep 30, 2011 1:10 AM, "Michael Mol" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo! > > > > Why are there so many packages whose versions never become stable? By > > "many", I mean here at least two. :-) > > > > These are the kernel and Firefox. > > > > My kernel is currently 2.6.39-gentoo-r3, built on July 18. By examining > > ebuilds, I now see that the ~amd64 is already up to 3.0.4-r1. I've > > missed 3.0.[0-3], it seems. > > The 2.6.x has stabilized versions. 3.x has been kept masked, because > even though it isn't significantly different from the latest 2.6.x, a > lot of tools were shown to fall apart when they see 3.x.y rather than > 2.6.x. >
Several days ago I did raise my concern on this behavior when I noticed that emerge wants to downgrade my hardened-sources. Although I'm using ~amd64, I draw the line on 3.0 and specified ~2.6.39. Now I'm forced to maintain a private/personal overlay to ensure that the kernels of my boxen don't get downgraded. I'll reconsider my stance in November; hopefully by that time essential packages will no longer fall apart when encountering 3.x.y. Rgds,
