Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

[Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>]

On Sunday, 7 October 2018 8:34:39 AM AEDT Jack wrote:
> On 2018.10.06 16:29, John Covici wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:55:53 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >>> So, I have not been able to figure this out, it did not abort and
> >>> wants to install the masked package, so hear is the whole output
> >>> --- thanks for all your help.
> >> 
> >> What is the actual package.mask set to?  Does the same mask cover
> >> both the installed and upgraded version of gtk+?  It seems odd to me
> >> that emerge would even offer the option to continue if a package was
> >> masked.  You might want to check with the portage team.
> > 
> > The line in my /etc/portage/package.mask says
> > x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30
> 
> For a specific version, you probably want that to be
>   =x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30
> or
> 
>   >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30
> 
> although the # in
> [ebuild     U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo]
> seems to show it knows it is listed in package.mask.


Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you 
might want to try:

	--autounmask-keep-masks y

I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked.


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