Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread James Cloos
> "KF" == Kristian Fiskerstrand > writes: KF> I'm not familiar with any large difference. I only mentioned sks because it is the only heavy user of berk db I currently run. Most either moved on to other libs or I use w/ pg. I did get the impression from the sks list that db5 worked be

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread James Cloos
> "MG" == Michał Górny writes: MG> Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 17:40:16 MG> James Cloos napisał(a): >> So it should be fine to unmask 5.3 and slowly update reverse >> dependencies to depend on 5.3 instead of whichever 4.x they >> currently demand. >> Unmasking the earlier 5.x releases seems u

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 17:40:16 James Cloos napisał(a): > I've read that some heavy users of db, such as sks, work better with 5.3 > than they did with older versions. But upgrading needs to be done with care. > > So it should be fine to unmask 5.3 and slowly update reverse > dependencies to

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/30/2014 11:40 PM, James Cloos wrote: >> "MG" == Mike Gilbert writes: > > I've read that some heavy users of db, such as sks, work better > with 5.3 than they did with older versions. But upgrading needs to > be done with care. > I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread James Cloos
> "MG" == Mike Gilbert writes: MG> For example, I think the major reason for the sys-libs/db mask is a MG> weird licensing issue. It's still nice to have it in the tree. That only applies to db:6.0. I know debian and ubuntu primarily use 5.3 these days, with the only issues being related

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:46:04PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > All, > > > > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old > > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the > > description. > > > > H

Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the > description. > > Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These > should be

[gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

2014-06-30 Thread William Hubbs
All, Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the description. Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These should be cleaned up by either 1) removing the mask or 2) booting the affected p