Adventures in other distributions

08 Oct 2004

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To demo the translation support I've added to KnowledgeTree, I needed to upgrade PHP on Jam Warehouse's web page to support gettext. Since it was a Gentoo machine, I had to remember how it worked. That was amicably resolved, although it seems you can't tell emerge never to upgrade something, or to have a per-package set of USE flags (things portupgrade on FreeBSD have had for ages). However, my adventures in Fedora Core 2 (installed for me at work, since I thought it wouldn't matter) have seen me wonder how a distribution can make all these programs (that run beautifully on my FreeBSD and Debian machines) more prone to lock-up and crashing?

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  1. Jonathan Hitchcock — October 08, 2004 at 06:15 PM.

    If you have a look through portage(5), you will see that /etc/portage/package.mask is a way of, for example, masking all versions of software later than the one you never want to upgrade. In addition, /etc/portage/package.use is where you put your per-package set of USE flags.

  2. Neil Blakey-Milner — October 09, 2004 at 01:19 PM.

    Great. Of course, I should've known I shouldn't've expected the zealots who constantly tout Gentoo's greatness to know how to do anything.

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