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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:37 pm    Post subject: app-arch/tar too old for tar.xz distfiles Reply with quote

Hi,

Today, I wanted to emerge Lokalize.

Emerge failed because the distfiles were not uncompressed. The problem occured for kde-base/krosspython-4.9.5, kde-base/kdesdk-strigi-analyzer-4.9.5 and lokalize.

Code:
Tar command failed at least partially - continuing anyway


After updating tar (from 1.20 installed in 2008), emerge succeeds.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

how well do you maintain you system? how (and how often) do you update?
the oldest version of tar available in portage is 1.23-r2, and that version supports xz compression.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Veldrin wrote:
how well do you maintain you system? how (and how often) do you update?
the oldest version of tar available in portage is 1.23-r2, and that version supports xz compression.

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I update only what is needed: security issue by GLSA and update to get the last programs for allday uses.

It seems that a newer version of tar never was a dependency.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. OK. We should make it a dependency somewhere.

As a side note, I'm not so sure this is the ideal update strategy. Also, you'll get a lot of bug reports closed as obsolete...
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dilfridge wrote:
Wow. OK. We should make it a dependency somewhere.

As a side note, I'm not so sure this is the ideal update strategy. Also, you'll get a lot of bug reports closed as obsolete...


I'm interested by any update strategy experience. Feel free to tell me more.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Start with emerge --update --deep --verbose --ask --newuse --with-bdeps=y @world.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
Start with emerge --update --deep --verbose --ask --newuse --with-bdeps=y @world.


I know, but it never works. There is always conflicts (eg. qt blocks itself, libreoffice-l10n blocks libreoffice-bin, ...).
I do not tell about all side effects on Xorg and udev which needs to know (tits read eselect news).
To use such force method, I must tweak a lot in package.mask, remove all qt packages, ...

How do you succeed?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

by starting to post error messages.

the qt part can be resolved easily: emerge -a1O $(qlist -IC x11-libs/qt-)


and if you keep your upgrade procedure (emerge -aDu world) to weekly to monthly basis, a lot less will break.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Veldrin wrote:
by starting to post error messages.

the qt part can be resolved easily: emerge -a1O $(qlist -IC x11-libs/qt-)


and if you keep your upgrade procedure (emerge -aDu world) to weekly to monthly basis, a lot less will break.

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Thanks for the trick about Qt and your interest for my post.
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