-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello Mark,
I was under the impression that packages with the ~amd64 (or ~x86) keywords are in testing, but no serious instabilities had been found, or they would be hard masked. I have had non-testing packages break my system before, as well. What generally happens is the the environment variables become messed up, or the service dependencies do - either way, I can't use emerge or any of the available utilities to fix the problem, or even find out what it does. About a year ago, I went to a testing system and haven't had any problems, except when I re-install Gentoo. I guess it is always a choice - either go with the "stable" version of a distribution or you go with the testing version (some people really push the envelope and go for the unstable version). I read up on the keywords, and found out that having the ~mad64 keyword on a package just means that it hasn't been adequately tested on that architecture. That's how people like me help move things along - by testing those packages on our systems, and reporting any problems we find. Regards, Chris Mark Knecht wrote: | On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Hello, |> |> Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you |> choose to put "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64" in your make.conf file? I have had my |> system break, twice now, from a package upgrade - I think that one of the |> culprits is gawk, but can't be certain. |> |> I do know that the only way to fix the problem was to restore from backup, or |> to try re-installing again. I just want to know which packages are so unstable |> that I should mask them. TIA. |> |> Regards, |> Chris |> | | Hi Chris, | I don't think your question can be answered as phrased. | | *Any* package marked with '~' is 'new', 'in testing', 'unstable', | etc. Very few (in my experience) 'break' my machine, but I have a rule | that any package energed as part of emerge system must be stable and I | personally add ~x86 or ~amd64 only for specific packages that I want | or need some new feature. | | Hope this helps, | Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFHypMsUx1jS/ORyCsRCg3SAJ9RjQk0hCUPo1oLfGRJR0gBYOdEmACfaoL+ 0Vb2FeuvF/RoA2MWEZjAs9U= =Gp0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
