From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4M8U-000299-R4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:09:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B49B9E0946; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8C4E0946 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so361768ewy.14 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=PfQWoO0NXxAJxeWzgRlud5baJifjCHT/rNF8+QL9Vfc=; b=qpN0emlYEPgiD9PDElrjD6lE1Y3tutyAZkPM4o7SOkMu7zSNfbp/iX3VYFiSKdmcbN 67GPkp7oe4+qgaCsjQAkHGILNXB+wuuV82XuCuITUjMh1CRjdiPvzuZOluLr9IXydWsO xwcxUiKbQoyRY+CovsewSddwxC4SlZcF1vSi8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=N7eBtQmJeDC4np4YHNhNKl9Je8T6psiQH7NGIrvfrY/d55grIu+3XyO6Yg1yUdMpRk LO/dg0gkoq5cXhY10/w3N/5T4wXfR6GRFCcJQDWTqkDy1PDjU+Y5w+QuJPy+suWo1oc3 Uf1EXk3n3TQXAJNY0j0+RPpGaIRm7xv5uxq20= Received: by 10.216.85.17 with SMTP id t17mr2318992wee.178.1257026964804; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm2304015eyd.6.2009.10.31.15.09.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignores /etcportage/package.mask Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:08:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911010008.23769.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d22e6236-40ae-418e-a528-7a82a3191a4d X-Archives-Hash: 146ff26352d4ccff14cc4157315a05de On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:44:00 Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > From the gentoo docs: > > "Older cards such as the GeForce FX 5 series should use the 173.x > drivers, such as nvidia-drivers-173.14.15. For these cards, you should > mask >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174.00 in your > /etc/portage/package.mask file. This will prevent newer versions of > the driver which are incompatible with your card from being > installed." > > But emerge ignores package.mask and insists on installing the newer > pkg. Searching reveals an old bug marked 'resolved' but nothing to say > what the resolution is. check that you don't have the ebuild listed in package.unmask That takes precedence over package.mask -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com