Holly Bostick wrote: > >>(other) Funny thing is, last I heard, you were planning to mask the >>"upgrade" versions of GCC. If you did that, of /course/ you are no >>longer offered upgrades, since that's the point of masking (to mark a >>package as "unavailable to be installed on this computer"). >> >>gcc-3.4.5-r1 is the most recent stable; current unstable (~x86) is >>3.4.6, 4.0 is masked (hard-masked), so you wouldn't see it anyway. >> >>So I'm guessing you are running stable only, and masked the most recent >>stable version explicitly (3.4.5-r1)? If you masked only that version in >>/etc/portage/package.mask, like so >> >>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1 >> >>you won't see an offer to update until 3.4.6 goes stable; if you masked >>all versions above your current version, as in >> >>| > =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5-r1 >> >>you won't see an offer to update ever, until you adjust the mask. >>Although when 4.0 makes it into the tree, it might use a different slot, >>so that might make you an offer. >> >>But as far as I know, 3.4.5-r1 is still alive and kicking in the tree. >> >>Holly >> >>
Well, I didn't get around to changing anything in the mask file so either it did it and I forgot it or some ghost came in and took care of it for me. ;-) I guess since it was a minor update it won't matter anyway. Nice to hear from you again though Holly. Take Care. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
