From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23305 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Dec 2002 17:30:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6370 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2002 17:30:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:31:28 -0500 From: Michael Cummings To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20021227123128.2bae542b.mcummings@datanode.net> In-Reply-To: <200212271615.28206.ben@thatproject.co.uk> References: <20021227150259.24a4a84a.bain@tcsn.co.za> <200212271615.28206.ben@thatproject.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; ) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masked packages in system .. X-Archives-Salt: 0c2f63b4-d537-46d7-ac72-8c7e9cdb79d3 X-Archives-Hash: bb524230c4ab3cd225836ad4a8826e23 Hmmm...and I know for a fact that perl-5.6.1-r10 is *not* masked on any platform other than MIPS, and I somehow doubt you are running this on a MIPS. Incidentally, perl 5.8 was just unmasked for x86. Mike - the perl maintainer On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:15:28 +0000 Benj wrote: > On Friday 27 December 2002 1:02 pm, Henti Smith wrote: > > hi there .. > > > > this is not the first time this has happened .. but when I try emerge -u > > system I get errors about masked packages. How can a maksed package be part > > of a system update ? > > > > is this not really silly ? > > Agreed, it does seem strange... I just got this: > > root@maya apache # emerge -up world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies \ > !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r10" have been > masked. > !!! (dependency required by "dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4" [ebuild]) > > Looks like the DEPEND in the MakeMaker ebuild has barfed. > Now, I will file a bug, and normally this all Just Works (tm), but dependency > nightmares for system ebuilds seems a bit of a bad thing. > > just my 2p > > /ben > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- | #gentoo-dev on irc.openprojects.net Gentoo Dev | #gentoo-perl on irc.openprojects.net Perl Guy | | GnuPG Key ID: AB5CED4E9E7F4E2E -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list