Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been > eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new "reserved > checkout" - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
you must have missed this link from the gentoo homepage (on the left): http://packages.gentoo.org/ a search yields this: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=subversion also, for a command-line version, read: man equery You might also want to read up on the portage section in the gentoo handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 sorry for such a canned answer, but i would only repeat what's been written there. > I've tried using ~x86 as my USE flag - but the 1.2 ebuild still won't > install reporting a "Problem in dev-util/subversion-1.2 dependencies"... > I'm reluctant to use an unstable subverison port as it would cost me a > fair bit of time if it scrambles my version controlled files. Does > anyone know what the problems are and why its taking so long to get > 1.2.x into the default portage tree? Don't put ~x86 in your USE flags just for that - use /etc/portage/package.keywords (see the above mentioned portage guide). I'm not exactly sure what you want - Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords (create this file if it doesn't exist) : =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5 ~x86 =dev-libs/apr-0.9.5 ~x86 You just add one package, ask portage to merge, then put in the next dependency, and so on... Tried this on amd64 (with ~amd64 instead of ~x86, naturally), it's happily compiling away... This was just info about portage, it is in no way any form of endorsement on the new version of subversion, as I haven't used it at all - and I don't know if you should be so impatient with a new version of a package that seems to be important to you and your data... Hope this helps, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
