From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28114 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Dec 2002 17:53:27 -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 29433 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2002 17:53:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Benj Organization: thatproject To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:52:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021227150259.24a4a84a.bain@tcsn.co.za> <200212271615.28206.ben@thatproject.co.uk> <20021227123128.2bae542b.mcummings@datanode.net> In-Reply-To: <20021227123128.2bae542b.mcummings@datanode.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212271752.29930.ben@thatproject.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masked packages in system .. X-Archives-Salt: 5e441453-af69-47eb-b968-f6d33bb97c4d X-Archives-Hash: 2e47e817805225a8149fa0433bd3f20c Correct... Although I must have screwed something up - I removed the ~mips from KEYW= ORDS,=20 and the ebuild installs fine. So somethint certainly aint right, but I=20 withdraw the implication that it's your fault ;o) Since I've already exposed by cluenessness, can I ask a dumb question? It= =20 would be nice to install 5.8 but not make it default. ie specify=20 #!/usr/bin/perl5.8 for playing around with the newer version, but to keep= =20 trusty 5.6.1 until I'm happy I'm not going to break anything. Maybe via = a=20 USE flag at emerge or summat. Of course this paranoia is perhaps strange= =20 seeing as my workstation seems to think it's a MIPS, but I would still li= ke=20 that feature... /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 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 emer= ge > > > -u system I get errors about masked packages. How can a maksed pack= age > > > 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" hav= e 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list