Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked

[Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>]

2008/11/7 Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>:
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> [1]:
> ======
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007 (masked by: package.mask)
> /home/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> (5 Nov 2008)
> # Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
>
>
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-libs/amd64codecs
>
> ... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
> =======
>
>
>
> [2]:
> =======
> equery d amd64codecs
> [ Searching for packages depending on amd64codecs... ]
> media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 (!bindist & amd64 & real?
> media-libs/amd64codecs)
> =======
>
>
> [3] emerge -pv mplayer
>
> [binary   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1  USE="3dnow
> 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa custom-cflags doc dts dvd encode esd gif iconv
> jack jpeg ladspa mad mmx mmxext mp3 opengl png quicktime rtc sdl srt
> sse sse2 theora truetype unicode vorbis x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
> -aalib (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio
> -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -dirac -directfb
> -dv -dvb -dxr3 -enca -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -joystick -libcaca
> -lirc -live -lzo -md5sum -mp2 -musepack -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm
> -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar (-real) -samba -schroedinger -speex -ssse3
> (-svga) -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim
> -xinerama -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa"
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
>

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.

-- 
dott. ing. beso