Re: [gentoo-dev] masked packages in system ..

[Benj <ben@thatproject.co.uk>]

Correct...

Although I must have screwed something up - I removed the ~mips from KEYWORDS, 
and the ebuild installs fine.  So somethint certainly aint right, but I 
withdraw the implication that it's your fault ;o)

Since I've already exposed by cluenessness, can I ask a dumb question? It 
would be nice to install 5.8 but not make it default.  ie specify 
#!/usr/bin/perl5.8 for playing around with the newer version, but to keep 
trusty 5.6.1 until I'm happy I'm not going to break anything.  Maybe via a 
USE flag at emerge or summat.  Of course this paranoia is perhaps strange 
seeing as my workstation seems to think it's a MIPS, but I would still like 
that feature... <g>

/ben

On Friday 27 December 2002 5:31 pm, Michael Cummings wrote:
> 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 <ben@thatproject.co.uk> 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
> >
> >
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