Bugzilla Bug 64135

New version is out yeeehhaaa.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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I can confirm this, 2.8 is released.

And i can tell you, our gnome folks are probably pretty aware of it to.

Sooo, not to be a-naggin' but with half-a-dozen distros announcing 2.8 builds,
how come there's no ebuild in this bug?
I'm more than willing to start testing.
Are significant modifications needed to make a 2.6.3 ebuild work?

can't test it, seem I can't unmask packages.

just remove /usr/portage/profile/package.mask file and retry. 

this bug is useless enough, it doesn't need to become a support forum for
people who aren't firmiliar with anything(thats what forums.gentoo.org is for). 

@comment3, gnome desktop and libs make up several dozen ebuilds, not one. It
takes much more work then bumping a 2.6.3 ebuild. If you need to install it
right now, I hear there are half a dozen distros that offer packages(keep yer
pants on)

@comment 4 man portage and read about the /etc/portage dir(or please wait until
things are put into ~arch). 

@comment 5 don't offer a solution to the problem if you don't understand it.
Removing package.mask is not at all the correct thing to do. Also man portage.

@any future comments: the gnome team is very much aware of a 2.8 release(and
any other gnome releated releases for that matter), and foser is working on the
ebuilds now, adding them into the tree as quick as he can. There should be no
need to comment on this bug. Hopefully the only other comment in this bug will
be when 2.8 is added into ~arch and this is closed. 

Gnome 2.8 is now almost completely available in p.mask. From here theres a few
hurdles to take before it can be moved out of there. List below...

* general testing (duh)

* all non x86 arches in meta (and probably some others) probably need to add
keywords to certain new components (most new components are in a RDEP section
after the large 'old' list in the gnome-base/gnome-2.8.0_prex ebuild)

When this takes too long, those arches will be removed from meta
(gnome-base/gnome) when it is removed from p.mask to minimize the overall
stress. But most likely there will still be discrepancies in the tree (although
most users wont notice them), this is a situation we'd of course like to avoid.

* Add virtual/fam and dep on it to easy the move to gamin. app-admin/fam will
stay first choice for now. Someone needs to do the works ;)

* fix gnome-vfs/howl

* add a newer release of hal, either official release or cvs snapshot.

* ... probably something i can't think of right now

CC arches currently in meta + devs who poked me about gnome 2.8 (yeah you know
who you are)

Thanks Joe.  Yes, I'm aware there's more than one ebuild.
bumping *all* of 'em up. Better? :)

Buuuut, no rush.  Was just wondering what the status was - and foser provided that nicely.

@comment #6, I know how to unmask packages thx, don't be so obvious... What I
don't understand is why there isn't yet any gnome-2.8_pre1 in
/usr/portage/profile/packages.mask . I did today after a new sync

 grep 'gnome' /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask


and no masked packages. The same for evolution-2.0 btw

hum ok, just realized that all packages up to 2.7 was masked. My fault...

This has gone on long enough! Please, this is no forum, 80% of the comments
made add nothing relevant to the bug, while probably a few dozen devs are CC-ed
on it receiving pointless, distracting traffic. Keep quiet if you got nothing
useful to add.

That being said, whats the status for the arches adding the new packages ? I
know it's all a bit shortterm, but the few remaining issues are relatively
minor and I'd like to get gnome 2.8 out of p.mask.

Have you got a complete list of which packages need keywords added for each
arch, and what USE flags to mask for each if they don't work?

I don't have a full list, but the following list should probably cover most of
it:

dev-util/desktop-file-utils
net-misc/vino
gnome-extra/gal-2.2*
gnome-extra/evolution-data-server
mail-client/evolution-2*
gnome-extra/evolution-webcal
app-admin/gnome-system-tools
net-analyzer/gnome-nettool

deps going to be under 'hal' USE flag (non default) :

gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager (not USE flagged yet in meta)
sys-apps/hal
sys-apps/dbus

deps going to be under 'howl' USE flag :
net-misc/howl (in gnome-vfs)

not yet in portage :
gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data

the last one is just data files, nothing arch specific to consider so I might
as well use the KEYWORDS from gnome-games from which it got split out.

all the necessary ebuilds should be keyworded on amd64.

PPC will have a look at everything asap. Have you got a list of ppc specific
things that need looking at?

Sparc will look at it once the hal USE flag is around so we can mask it,
otherwise it would involve some ebuild tweaking.

PPC is ok since 2 days ago, testing locally here, dbus/hal seems to need kernel
-2.6.8.x

hal USE flag has been added to the meta ebuild

*** Bug 65477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'm attempting to build the new deps on mips right now.  I'm not sure what to
expect as I never even have tested older versions of some of this stuff
beforehand.

I'm on x86, installed the hardmasked gnome (with udev, kernel 2.6.7).
gal won't compile, econf bails out, my solution was to emerge the new kernel headers, then redo glibc, aftwards gal worked...

just pointing this as I'm not sure how it will effect gnome users in the mainstream

ok on x86. 

- Same problem with gal. I had previousliy installed linux-headers but it  was marked as block when emerging gnome. So I remoded it. But after removed it linux26-headers wasn't emerged before gal. I have to emerge them first and then everything was ok.

- provlem with evolution 2: it doesn't replace evolution-1.4.6, dunno why. So /usr/bin/evolution refers to evolution-1.4 and not evolution-2 . 

- problem with gnome-themes-manager : it doesn't display themes

this is a tracker, problems should go seperated in bugs blocking this one &
please be more verbose about them than you are now, we can't do anything with
these generic descriptions.

sparc is looking good, keyworded everything needed ~sparc, except hal which i
masked for obvious reasons.
No showstopper bugs so far, everything works like a charm.

Ok, mips should be all good for the unmasking now.

hppa should have everything ~keyworded.
hal has been use.mask'ed since it was not tested yet.

i compile gnome 2.8 on my system yesterday. i can't start the
gnome-system-monitor because the program can't load the libgtop libary. A
recompile of libgtop don't work. Also the gnome system is very slow now.

Could this be a duplicate of bug <a
href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60945">60945</a>??

Sorry, ignore my last comment.

We can't wait forever, altough all goals have not been met i've moved gnome 2.8
to ~arch.

alpha removed from final keywords mask

hppa : check evolution related deps, i left 2.0.1 in p,mask because of some
bugs that need sorting & 2.0.0 didn't get keyworded

thnks everyone for helping out

We take the remaining issues to a new bug  which will be created soon

It's unmasked but there is a small problem in package.mask. Line 219 reads:

gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.0.1

and it should be:

>=gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.0.1

gnome-extra/gnome-games is still missing for gnome-2.8

@32 : yeah, you think I really didn't know that ?

new tracker bug #66864