[gentoo-user] problem with firefox/libvpx

2020-02-07 Thread John Covici
Hi. Well, I have run into a problem on the world update I am about to do? Firefox requires libvpx-1.7.0 and handbrake wants 8.x. Now there is a use flag systemlibvpx which is enabled, I am assuming if I disable that the great God of portage will let me continue with my update -- any reason why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:34 PM Michael Jones wrote: > > Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed users to > functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 > > Honestly I'd rather see the 30 day stabilization policy apply to LTS kernels > vs. being

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Jones
I'll start by saying that I appreciate all the work the Gentoo developers do, and by no means have any animosity for them for this, Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed users to functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 Took me several hours to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Franz Fellner
That doesn't apply to the kernel. 4.19.97 got tagged on January 17. January 18. it was stable on amd64 and x86 - one day instead of 30. Here is the stabilization request: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705006 There were some issues and changes to the targeted versions. Am Fr., 7. Feb. 2020 um 19:18 Uhr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:23 PM Matt Connell wrote: > > On 2020-02-06 11:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. > > I see that now. But my original question still stands as to why the > stable version of gentoo-sources is consistently a few versions behind > the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 06:19, Franz Fellner wrote: > > That article you linked to is about a variant of linux, "rt". And as it looks > they didn't update their branch since the release of 4.19.100-r41. > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/log/?h=v4.19-rt >