[gentoo-dev] Re: masking question (flex-2.5.4a-r5 / xfree-4.2.1)

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net>]

Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> Can anyone help me with the following?
> 
> When I do an emerge -s flex, I get
> *  sys-devel/flex
>       Latest version available: 2.5.4a-r4
>       Latest version installed: 2.5.4a-r4
>       Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
>       Description: GNU lexical analyser generator
> 
> There is an -r5 ebuild in the portage dir. and this version is not masked,
> so why isn't it listed in the search?
> 
> Almost the same with the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild. This one is masked but if I
> unmask it, I still get the 4.2.0-r12 version listed.
> 
> When i try to give the 4.2.1 ebuild on the emerge command line I get the
> following:
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
> 
> Calculating dependencies |
> 
> emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5" (from
> ebuild / x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 merge) have been masked.
> 
> I am confused. What does that mean and where is it masked?
> 

Possibly a different subject, but are people aware that flex is now up to 
2.5.22?  Many fix0rs and such have been incorporated into the new version.  
Hit me up for the new maintainer's webpage.

Cheers,
Nicholas