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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:13 AM

Hi NG!

I'm just curious. Why has kde-3.2.2 not yet been marked stable? Gentoo has a
track record of following major releases rather closely, but kde-3.2.2 has
been out for almost a month now. What's up?

Anno.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:13 AM

Anno v. Heimburg wrote:

> I'm just curious. Why has kde-3.2.2 not yet been marked stable? Gentoo
> has a track record of following major releases rather closely, but
> kde-3.2.2 has been out for almost a month now. What's up?

If you look at the bugzilla database, you'll find that parts of that KDE
release are still likely to fail during compile. It appears to be,
among other things, a parallel make problem, and since significant
numbers of Gentoo users use parallel makes, the package is masked. At
least until this is fixed.

--
PeKaJe
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If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by
statistical methods.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:14 AM

On Thu, 06 May 2004 23:58:09 +0200, Anno v. Heimburg wrote:

> Hi NG!
>
> I'm just curious. Why has kde-3.2.2 not yet been marked stable? Gentoo has a
> track record of following major releases rather closely, but kde-3.2.2 has
> been out for almost a month now. What's up?
>
> Anno.

KDE-3.2.2 is in Portage. FWIW, it did compile OK here with a -j5
make option.

Being in ~ARCH does not mean KDE is considered unstable, only its ebuild
is. Given the size of the package, it is not a surprise that the ebuild
needs a lot a testing and feedback before it can be marked stable.

Again, ~ARCH does not mean unstable software, it means the ebuild hasn't
been thoroughly tested yet.

Hth

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:14 AM

Xavier <NOSPAM@keepyourspam.com> schrieb:

>Again, ~ARCH does not mean unstable software, it means the ebuild hasn't
>been thoroughly tested yet.

Yes, but when I try
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -up kde
it tells a lot of other packages would be emerged too. Are those
packages all in ~x86? Do I risc an unstable system that way?

On my other box I have SuSE9.1, updated to KDE 3.2.2. I have no
problem with the stability of KDE.
Eggert

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:14 AM

Le vendredi 7 Mai 2004 12:41, Eggert Ehmke a écrit:

> Yes, but when I try
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -up kde
> it tells a lot of other packages would be emerged too. Are those
> packages all in ~x86? Do I risc an unstable system that way?
>
> On my other box I have SuSE9.1, updated to KDE 3.2.2. I have no
> problem with the stability of KDE.
> Eggert

You should add ~x86 kde packages in /etc/portage/packages.keywords:

########
=kde-base/kde-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeartwork-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdegames-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeadmin-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeaddons-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdepim-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdenetwork-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeaccessibility-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdetoys-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeutils-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdeedu-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdegraphics-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdebase-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.2
=kde-base/arts-1.2.2
=kde-base/kde-i18n-3.2.2
=kde-base/kdesdk-3.2.2

=x11-libs/qt-3.3.1-r2
#######

then emerge -pv world
--
Ram

#6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:14 AM

Xavier wrote:
> Again, ~ARCH does not mean unstable software, it means the ebuild hasn't
> been thoroughly tested yet.

Not in every case, sometimes it really does mean 'unstable/testing'
software.

So whilst KDE 3.2.2 has been out for a month, still it's under testing
(not neccessarily unstable) to see if issues crop up (compilation or
runtime). After all, we don't want several thousand KDE users to
automatically upgrade only to run all sorts of problems, let's leave
that to the ~x86 users. :P

--
Ben M.

#7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 07:17 AM

In alt.os.linux.gentoo, Anno v. Heimburg uttered these immortal words:

> I'm just curious. Why has kde-3.2.2 not yet been marked stable? Gentoo has
> a track record of following major releases rather closely, but kde-3.2.2
> has been out for almost a month now. What's up?

KDE 3.2.2 popped up today when I ran emerge to update my system. I'm
surprised it hasn't been mentioned already.

--
Andy.

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