[TriLUG] Gentoo updates and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r1

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
Thu Feb 8 08:38:07 EST 2007


Hah! 

I <3 revdep-rebuild.... especially when it needs to emerge 1,500
packages.... hahahahahaha! 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of tomed at bellsouth.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:41 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Gentoo updates and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r1

Adding dev-java/sun-jdk to package.keywords did the trick, thanks.

Then I had to deal with revdep-rebuild due to the new dbus package.
That's why I love Gentoo!

At Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:34:52 -0500,
David Brain wrote:
> 
> On my machine (which updated to 1.6 without incident) I have the 
> following in /etc/portage/package.keywords
> 
> dev-java/sun-jdk
> dev-java/java-config
> dev-java/java-config-wrapper
> 
> I had it there originally to ensure I ran with the 1.5 JDK - however 
> it has also picked up the 1.6 now, and it all seems to be working 
> correctly.
> 
> David.
> 
> On 2/6/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> > I could see this happening. Do you merge ~x86 (unstable) and x86
> > (stable) packages? One place I think I've seen it has been with
Oo...
> >
> > I'm assuming you have java in your USE="" flags?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] 
> > On Behalf Of tomed at bellsouth.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:05 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Gentoo updates and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r1
> >
> > My jdk's are set to the standard:
> >
> > virtual/jdk
> > virtual/jre
> >
> > The new dependency on java 1.6 happened gradually as I did updates -

> > first for just a few packages, then for world.
> >
> > The jdk section in my package.keywords does not mention jdk 1.6
> >
> > I assume that new packages are arriving with dependencies on jdk
1.6.
> > I'd rather stick with 1.5, but right now I can't do security
updates.
> >
> > At Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:26:53 -0500,
> > Owen Berry wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you sure you don't have virtual/jdk set to ~x86 in 
> > > /etc/portage/package.keywords ? According to everything I can see 
> > > virtual/jdk-1.6.0 is still in testing.
> > >
> > > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=jdk
> > >
> > > Owen
> > >
> > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:43:18AM -0500, tomed at bellsouth.net
wrote:
> > > > Greetings TriLug Gentooers,
> > > >
> > > > I haven't been able to do any updates for a few weeks now, 
> > > > because the base system jdk has changed to virtual/jdk-1.6.0, 
> > > > and the Sun version of this is masked.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on a safe way to get beyond this? I'd prefer to 
> > > > continue using Sun.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tom Ed
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