From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19850 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Dec 2002 16:26:40 -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 5663 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2002 16:26:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Benj Organization: thatproject To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:15:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021227150259.24a4a84a.bain@tcsn.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20021227150259.24a4a84a.bain@tcsn.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212271615.28206.ben@thatproject.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masked packages in system .. X-Archives-Salt: 718b5786-9745-453e-a1fa-245292af469c X-Archives-Hash: d5e5e8679e2c36cb832a73809517d457 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 ">=3Dsys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r10" have be= en=20 masked. !!! (dependency required by "dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4" [ebu= ild]) Looks like the DEPEND in the MakeMaker ebuild has barfed. Now, I will file a bug, and normally this all Just Works (tm), but depend= ency=20 nightmares for system ebuilds seems a bit of a bad thing. just my 2p /ben -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list