Bash 4.3 - not available at all?

Bueddl · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2014 Posts: 5 Location: /dev/null

Hello,

I am using Gentoo since about a year now and I am really excited about it. There is one small issue I am not getting ahead of:
I wanted to update to bash 4.3 (lot's of cool new features), but there doesn't seem to be a version for any system in the gentoo repos (http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-shells/bash), despite the ebuild gots updated frequently.

Using equery got me this result:

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:51 am Post subject:

Cool I didn t knew there is this equery y package thing.

Well it needs more testing. As any package it is red, i think it is called hard masked.

If you are interested on testing you should check bugs.gentoo.org.

usually these packages have lots of bugs on them. and there was in the past some period until a package gets marked ~ and than stable, no idea if that policy has changed.

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

Bueddl · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2014 Posts: 5 Location: /dev/null

John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:06 pm Post subject:

Yes, it's standard procedure. It all depends on what level of risk you're prepared for. At this point, you should hear a faint, ghostly whisper of, "You do have backups, don't you?"

- John
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Bueddl · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2014 Posts: 5 Location: /dev/null

Thanks John, that finally made it clear to me!

- And of course I have backups

Sebsatian

Genone · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:16 am Post subject:

Unkeyworded basically means that the package wasn't really tested at all. The ** override was intended as a last-resort override for developers, unfortunately it has become somewhat common practice due to an increased number of unkeyworded packages in the tree.