Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:32:21AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote > Except that "switching back" from gcc-5 to gcc-4 doesn't really work, > and that gcc-4 will happily use gcc-5 libraries, with unintended > consequences. It can be done, but it takes a little work. I do a contributed build

Re: [gentoo-dev] about modifying an ebuild in local overlay and $FILESDIR

2017-04-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Christian Bricart wrote: > Hi all, > > from time to time, I need to make (and maintain) modifications to an > ebuild from the main tree in my local overlay. > So basically, I create the directory structure from > /usr/portage/// under >

[gentoo-dev] about modifying an ebuild in local overlay and $FILESDIR

2017-04-26 Thread Christian Bricart
Hi all, from time to time, I need to make (and maintain) modifications to an ebuild from the main tree in my local overlay. So basically, I create the directory structure from /usr/portage/// under /usr/local/portage///, copy over the ebuild and do my modifications in the ebuild. So far how an

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2017, 02:37:17 CEST schrieb Francesco Riosa: >> 2017-04-26 0:26 GMT+02:00 Andreas K. Huettel : >> > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Michał Górny
On śro, 2017-04-26 at 11:42 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Michał Górny schrieb: > > The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would > > cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it > > installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Michał Górny schrieb: The most important goal of having the packages masked is that it would cause Portage to verbosely complain whenever the users have it installed. With appropriate comment (displayed by Portage), we could clearly inform users that they need to upgrade gcc and switch to a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2017, 02:37:17 CEST schrieb Francesco Riosa: > 2017-04-26 0:26 GMT+02:00 Andreas K. Huettel : > > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc, in particular