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n00b
Joined: 14 Aug 2002
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 Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:43 am Post subject: How does emerge consider what version to merge? |
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Hi,
In media-gfx/imagemagick there are the following files:
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media-gfx/imagemagick/imagemagick-5.4.7-r1.ebuild
media-gfx/imagemagick/imagemagick-5.4.7-r2.ebuild
media-gfx/imagemagick/imagemagick-5.4.9.1.ebuild
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when i do emerge imagemagick I get:
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portage # emerge -p imagemagick
These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/imagemagick-5.4.7-r2
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Now what I am trying to figure out is how emerge comes to the decision not to install the latest version. Apart from that the ebuild for 5.4.7-r2 is broken, as the sourcefile is no longer available...
I've been looking for a file where imagemagick was masked. (Amongst others by doing a grep -l -r imagemagick in /usr/portage). I could not find any.
So my question is the following: What other files/data/influences etc. can make emerge not to install the latest version of ImageMagick in this case, and how does emerge go at deciding what version to install of a package in general.
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jondkent
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Joined: 26 Jul 2002
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
the mask file is in:
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/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
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although I cannot find imagemagick in it which is werid 
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jondkent
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Think I found the problem.
If you look at the ebuild for 5.4.9.1 you'll see a KEYWORD section which expects ~x86 ~ppc or ~sparc64. So this package is not considered stable. To install it add the following into your make.conf file
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
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and it will install. You may wish to comment this out after the install to ensure the rest are kept at stable. Or I think you can do this
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export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
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as a more temporary measure
Jon |
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