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DarkJedi9
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 Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:58 am Post subject: Mozilla 1.1 (problems if I don't use Portage??) |
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| Okay, I've been having a couple issues with Mozilla 1.0.1 and would like to upgrade to 1.1 but it isn't in Portage, not even the unstable branch. Now, if I do emerge -C mozilla and then install mozilla 1.1 from a tarball, will there be any conflicts with Portage? I'm not sure how things are affected when I don't use Portage to install things. |
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Mozilla 1.1 (problems if I don't use Portage??) |
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| DarkJedi9 wrote: | | would like to upgrade to 1.1 but it isn't in Portage |
Yes it is, I've been using it for months - it's been there since late August. It's masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Either remove that mask entry, or invoke emerge with the full path to the ebuild file in /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.1-r1.ebuild.
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DarkJedi9
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, so in package.mask, I have a line >=net-www/mozilla-1.1. How would I edit that to unmask it? |
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| DarkJedi9 wrote: | | Okay, so in package.mask, I have a line >=net-www/mozilla-1.1. How would I edit that to unmask it? |
Comment it out by prefixing it with a '#', or just delete it entirely.
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DarkJedi9
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool. Thank you. |
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axxackall
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | DarkJedi9 wrote: | | Okay, so in package.mask, I have a line >=net-www/mozilla-1.1. How would I edit that to unmask it? |
Comment it out by prefixing it with a '#', or just delete it entirely. |
And after every "emerge rsync" I have to comment it out again and again, as everything like "emerge -u world" will try to "upgrade" (in fact - degrade) it from 1.1 back to 1.0.1.
Is there any "native" way in Portage to automate it? I mean more "native" than "generic" awk/sed/patch way I have to use now. |
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rac
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| axxackall wrote: | | Is there any "native" way in Portage to automate it? |
There's not really an elegant solution to this yet. What I do is to pass emerge a full path to the mozilla ebuild. That way it doesn't end up in my world file, and "emerge -up world" leaves it alone.
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axxackall
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| DarkJedi9 wrote: | | Okay, so in package.mask, I have a line >=net-www/mozilla-1.1. How would I edit that to unmask it? |
Another question is: what keeps pretty stable and nice-featured release (1.1) of mozilla from being unmasked from default?
I don't see any informative comments regarding this subject in the mask file. Is there any other place I can dig? |
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rac
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| axxackall wrote: | | Another question is: what keeps pretty stable and nice-featured release (1.1) of mozilla from being unmasked from default? |
Inertia, I think. It used to be because galeon 1.2.5 would not build with it, but I see that galeon 1.2.6 is unmasked now, so I don't see the reason for it either.
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