Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Mon, 2004-15-11 at 12:08 +0100, Nicholas Rahn wrote:
> I just emerged java-gnome with your ebuilds.  everything seemed to go
> fine and the emerge completed without errors.

Appreciate the report, thanks.

> Just to note that i had to uninstall the previous 2.6 version before i
> could install the 2.8.  the emerge was blocked by 2.6, but said it was
> blocked by 2.8.

The way that emerge reports that is confusing, to say the least. The
presence of 2.6 was reported as blocking the possibility of 2.8 is how
that should read, which was my intention

>   i had to look in your java-gnome ebuild to see that i

(for the reasons that spit out when you merge java-gnome).

> As an avid gentoo user, i'd just like to say thanks.  when do you think
> these will make it into portage?

Soon? :) They're making me a dev, so it could be they want me to do the
import, but I'll bug karltk and see if he'll import it for me sooner.

>   also, what would be nice would be to
> have the 2.8 ebuilds in stable

Had to wait until Gnome 2.8 itself was marked stable; further, they'll
probably want to wait a brief while but the positive test reports that
I've had from several people here mean we can get on with it pretty
fast.

>  and some 2.9 ebuilds as arch masked. :-)

Would depend on 1) there being tarballs of java-gnome 2.9 somewhere and
2) there being a set of ebuilds for the gnome 2.9 libraries to
subsequently depend on.=20

[Problem with arch masked in a case like this is that there are too many
idiots out there who run entirely ~arch systems and so the presence of
any 2.9 ebuilds in their portage at this point would cause it to get
brought in - making a mess of the otherwise overall stable gnome 2.8
present.

Which is why the next set of Gnome builds tend to be hard masked while
they are being prepared, and stay that way until the whole stack is
ready]

Personally, I'm going to focus on ensuring a 2.10 ebuild is ready for
when the time comes. That won't be a problem now, as I've made the jump
over the curve to account for the multiplexed libraries.

AfC
Atlanta
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