Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Mon, Feb 19 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:05:37 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> It is a good point. Why Gentoo developers marked or allow to mark >> gnucash-2.7 branch stable in portage when the developers >> https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml did not mark

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:05:37 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > It is a good point. Why Gentoo developers marked or allow to mark > gnucash-2.7 branch stable in portage when the developers > https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml did not mark it STABLE The key phrase there is "stable in

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On 02/18/2018 05:50 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: >> >> Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sunday, 18 February 2018 02:14:18 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > I no longer use Gnucash, having switched to KMyMoney a few years ago. Now > that's just jumped a major version and I had to mask it because of > missing features... so much for progress. This conversation reminds me that I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Mon, Feb 19 2018, John Blinka wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: >> >> > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: >> >> Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk,

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: > > Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk, > portage wants me to merge a newish

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:51:35 +, Mick wrote: > >> > What I do in the meantime is >> > >> >emerge --update --pretend @world >> > >> > and then manually >> > >> >emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk >> > >> > I do a similar

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: > >> What I do in the meantime is >> >>emerge --update --pretend @world >> >> and then manually >> >>emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk >> >> I do a similar procedure

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:07:46 -0500, Jack wrote: > > I no longer use Gnucash, having switched to KMyMoney a few years > > ago. Now that's just jumped a major version and I had to mask it > > because of missing features... so much for progress. > What missing features? There are some bugs in

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:51:35 +, Mick wrote: > > What I do in the meantime is > > > >emerge --update --pretend @world > > > > and then manually > > > >emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk > > > > I do a similar procedure for > > > >emerge @preserved rebuild > >

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: > What I do in the meantime is > >emerge --update --pretend @world > > and then manually > >emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk > > I do a similar procedure for > >emerge @preserved rebuild > > allan

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On 2018.02.17 21:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: I no longer use Gnucash, having switched to KMyMoney a few years ago. Now that's just jumped a major version and I had to mask it because of missing features... so much for progress. What missing features? There are some bugs in KMM 5.0, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:20:26 -0500, John Blinka wrote: > >> > Your best bet is to keyword gnucash-2.7.4, which does use the up to >> > date webkit-gtk. >> >> Tried that and gnucash-2.7.4 (and dependencies) do build without any >> troubles. But

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:20:26 -0500, John Blinka wrote: > > Your best bet is to keyword gnucash-2.7.4, which does use the up to > > date webkit-gtk. > > Tried that and gnucash-2.7.4 (and dependencies) do build without any > troubles. But https://gnucash.org/news.phtml declares that all 2.7.* >

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, Feb 17 2018, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. > Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild. > > In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always > been a very fragile build. I've put way too much

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > They don't. Note the slot specification at the end, there is only one > version in slot 2, the one that gives all the trouble. Thanks for pointing that out. > > Your best bet is to keyword gnucash-2.7.4, which does

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:23:13 -0500, John Blinka wrote: > The only package on my system that needs webkit-gtk is gnucash. All > of the stable ebuilds for gnucash contain this line > >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2 > And all of the versions of webkit-gtk in portage satisfy this condition. They

[gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

Hi, all, A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild. In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always been a very fragile build. I've put way too much time into wrestling with it and I'd like to get rid of