The current stable Maven ebuild is at 1.0-rc3 whereas the latest stable Maven version is 1.0.2. I have been using the masked Maven 1.0 ebuild on x86 and amd64 for several months now. Please consider unmasking it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -g" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -g" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 ithread ithreads java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres python quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt font-server fortran gdbm gif gpm imagemagick innodb ipv6 java jp2 jpeg junit libwww lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mysql ncurses nls opengl oss pam perl php png python readline ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xml2 xpm xrandr xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Would someone kindly unmask Maven 1.0? Pretty, please? Or at least have some rationale why you want to keep the obsolete version.
Personally, I dont think that it should be unmasked, it is a binary package, which means it is automatically deprecated due to the "new" Gentoo Java Policy. However, there are other dependencies holding up maven (not to mention the utter lack of ability to properly build it without modifying the entire build system it uses. However, if you like, feel free to help get Maven (from source) into portage (till then we can leave the binary version as is).
