Petteri Räty wrote:
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.
Hmmm... I suppose that suggests there were some major bugs... using
bugs.gentoo.org is new to me - it seems that's where I was missing a
pointer. Thanks again. I didn't want to pester the maintainer with
superfluous questions as to why packages are masked. It seems a pity
that all the information isn't available on one page... using
packages.gentoo.org and bugs.gentoo.org together gives the right info -
even if it requires a little bit more effort. :-) I'll be sure to see
if I can offer feedback to the bugzilla database if I find something
relevant to add.
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).
Ah, ha. That sounds sensible - now I follow. My USE confusion is
probably that I'd referred to some wrong/out-of-date documentation...
when I use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in place of USE it now behaves just how I had
previously expected it should have done.
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -uD subversion
This does what I'd originally intended to try... (and doesn't force me
to remember how to spell the dependencies.) I assume there's no
significant advantage I've missed in preferring to use the
package.keywords file instead?
Hopefully I answered this.
I think you did... Thanks!
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