[gentoo-user] Question regarding KDE upgrade and "MASKED PACKAGES"

[gentoo-user] Question regarding KDE upgrade and "MASKED PACKAGES"

[Chris]

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After setting the appropriate flags in the 'packages.keywords' file, I
emerged all of the KDE packages to 3.5.6 (a few don't have a 3.5.6
version yet).  I also had to emerge some new packages.

After merging these packages, emerge immediately wanted to downgrade
them, complaining about "Masked Packages".  I can't provide the text of
that (I can't even read the whole thing), since it will not pipe to a file.

Any suggestions?  Should I just downgrade everything to 3.5.5 and wait
until 3.5.6 becomes stable?  Are there packages I should downgrade or
get rid of?

By the way, KDE seems to work fine, even with these 'problems', but I am
concerned that it might fail at some point.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... ..... ....\b\b... done!
[ebuild     UD] dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.2-r1 [1.10.4] USE="alsa ieee1394
ipv6 ldap sasl ssl xml -debug -oss -sdl -v4l -v4l2" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r8 [3.5.6-r2] USE="acl alsa arts
avahi cups jpeg2k kerberos lua openexr spell ssl tiff utempter -debug
- -doc -fam -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -legacyssl -xinerama
- -zeroconf" LINGUAS="-he" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] kde-base/ktnef-3.5.5 [3.5.6] USE="arts -debug
- -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] net-libs/opal-2.2.3 [2.2.5] USE="-debug -noaudio
- -novideo" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] kde-base/certmanager-3.5.5 [3.5.6] USE="arts -debug
- -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] kde-base/libkcal-3.5.5 [3.5.6] USE="arts -debug
- -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD] kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.5-r1 [3.5.6] USE="arts -debug
- -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB

Total: 7 packages (7 downgrades), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Thanks for your help, in advance,
Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding KDE upgrade and "MASKED PACKAGES"

[Naga]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 15.34.25 Chris wrote:
> After setting the appropriate flags in the 'packages.keywords' file, I
> emerged all of the KDE packages to 3.5.6 (a few don't have a 3.5.6
> version yet).  I also had to emerge some new packages.
>
> After merging these packages, emerge immediately wanted to downgrade
> them, complaining about "Masked Packages".  I can't provide the text of
> that (I can't even read the whole thing), since it will not pipe to a file.
>
> Any suggestions?  Should I just downgrade everything to 3.5.5 and wait

Add the "--tree" switch to your emerge command. This will show you what 
package that require the old versions.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding KDE upgrade and "MASKED PACKAGES"

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 28 February 2007 15:34:25 Chris wrote:
> After merging these packages, emerge immediately wanted to downgrade
> them, complaining about "Masked Packages".  I can't provide the text of
> that (I can't even read the whole thing), since it will not pipe to a file.

This sounds rather peculiar. AFAIK all "Masked Packages" messages go to stdout 
so it should be easy to redirect it to a file. But try:

# emerge $whatever &> $file

That catches stderr too..

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