[gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Mick]

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Hi All,

eix and portage are telling me:
========================================
[D] www-servers/boa
     Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 
[M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
     Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
     Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
     Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
========================================

However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown as 
stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has been 
masked.  Am I missing something?

If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my 
distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> eix and portage are telling me:
> ========================================
> [D] www-servers/boa
>      Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20
> [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
>      Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
>      Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
>      Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
> ========================================
>
> However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown as
> stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has been
> masked.  Am I missing something?
>
> If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my
> distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?

boa is not masked. What is the output of `emerge -pv boa` ? Perhaps just sync 
or run update-eix ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:40:30 +0100, Mick wrote:

> However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown
> as stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has
> been masked.  Am I missing something?

Look in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.mask

# Raúl Porcel <armin76 at gentoo dot org> (18 May 2007)
# For treecleaners, bug 102174
# Pending removal 17 Jul 2007
www-servers/boa

It's only jsut happened so probably hasn't filtered through to p.g.o yet.

> If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my 
> distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?

NFS?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:40:30 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> eix and portage are telling me:
> ========================================
> [D] www-servers/boa
>      Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1
> [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
>      Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
>      Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
>      Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
> ========================================
> 
> However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still
> shown as stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain
> why it has been masked.  Am I missing something?
> 
> If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my 
> distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?
nfs.  

I have been using nfs for portage and distfiles with much success
so far.  I find that nfs access for portage is only a little slower
than having it on a local, unoptimized partition.  I save lots of time
with this method, since my new hosts on the network have instant
portage trees without having to wait for that long portage extraction.
I mount /usr/portage read-only and then distfiles read-write over the
top so that I can save new downloads if I need to.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Mick]

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On Friday 18 May 2007 16:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > eix and portage are telling me:
> > ========================================
> > [D] www-servers/boa
> >      Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20
> > [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
> >      Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
> >      Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
> >      Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
> > ========================================
> >
> > However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown as
> > stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has been
> > masked.  Am I missing something?
> >
> > If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my
> > distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?
>
> boa is not masked. What is the output of `emerge -pv boa` ? Perhaps just
> sync or run update-eix ?

Hmm, strange.  I've just emerge-sync'd.  Perhaps a naff mirror? (I think it 
was Stealer.net)
=============================================
# emerge -pv boa

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

Calculating dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
# Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> (18 May 2007)
# For treecleaners, bug 102174
# Pending removal 17 Jul 2007

- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_rc21 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.13 (masked by: package.mask)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.13-r1 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
=============================================
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 18 May 2007 18:10:41 Mick wrote:
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request: - www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86
> keyword) # Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> (18 May 2007)
> # For treecleaners, bug 102174
> # Pending removal 17 Jul 2007

So there is your answer. I looked in anoncvs but it hasn't reached that either 
yet... ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Mick]

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On Friday 18 May 2007 17:15, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 18:10:41 Mick wrote:
> > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked.
> > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> > request: - www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86
> > keyword) # Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> (18 May 2007)
> > # For treecleaners, bug 102174
> > # Pending removal 17 Jul 2007
>
> So there is your answer. I looked in anoncvs but it hasn't reached that
> either yet... ;)

Fair do's.  Took some time to look at the bug and it seems that thttpd is 
suggested as a valid replacement which unlike continues to be maintained.

@Neil: I haven't looked much into NFS because it seems more involved (running 
portmap also has security aspects to consider) than just running a little 
server every now and then - but may be I'm wrong.
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Mick wrote

> If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my 
> distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?

  Take a look at www-servers/tux

  There's an overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server
Tux is a set of kernel patches that produces a lean/mean in-kernel web
server.  For security reasons, it doesn't do dynamic web pages, but it
can selectively hand off requests for dynamic content to Apache, etc.
For serving out files, it's easily enough.

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Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security?
A. I think it would be a good idea.
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