From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyvV7-0006rA-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:37:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66BE4E030E; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE2FE030E for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so2007516fga.14 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:37:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I3O5neVcUAVoMaCrbUPQAa6XKBYUzpndutVus2/jXlY=; b=duJBtpHLVFomVisG4N3zF3VxrCaRsN7dynBy6zQ//QpkUWoVqcIokDu2JaN16cgBEg gfqIp2ygzESBcwmO/JLDrrG0ITEYiso+I8dZoXImLrPdkEE2OPakWouc8wLs+dMY7ISF LH/kj/zjfjyhqO6tjOY7rfEMzseIsLF8mZAGo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XKVL8qPXeto+Caei+RnZ3vye+iwEeNhMJFOCsFR8Xsnlo/Yg/hkrI94IXY5Phlz0gL CU1HsQXPktfPXxjzMXT5gUR93KdnLYm4tBOsK4+TjQLx6KllwiKsD1Wa8/Gmwa4+926W 2dLEFS2sI7IHF0DR2z5d4k5UYBBFLadlCVGPE= Received: by 10.86.61.13 with SMTP id j13mr5505143fga.71.1226180266986; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:37:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm6860736fga.5.2008.11.08.13.37.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:37:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 23:37:42 +0200 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked Message-ID: <20081108233742.6e86e0b9@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20081107103611.57599095@ilievnet.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1c41429-f49c-4fbe-a6af-bb529df39f79 X-Archives-Hash: 2b4f175ed32825a635f99a151653b6d5 On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:57:42 +0100 Beso wrote: > 2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev : > > > > Hi, guys > > > > Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage > > started to show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve > > Dibb for security reasons [1]. > > > > Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but > > I'm pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by > > uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't > > want to have problematic packages installed. What should I do in > > this case? > > > > [snip] > > the bug doesn't really seems very bad from the bug descrition. you > could just manually unmask the package as i did. the alternative is to > use -real and to not compile any realcodecs but you won't be able to > play wmv and rm files anymore. if you don't have that sort of files > you could just use -real and remove the amd64codecs. Thanks for the reply. I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this time. -- Best regards, Daniel