[gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[John Covici]

Hi.  In my latest world update, I have sys-fs/zfs and friends at
0.7.1 and they all want to update to 9999.  Does anyone know why this
should be -- normally 9999 is not in the normal update sequence.

I am using the unstable gentoo, updated about 3 weeks ago.  No harm
has come yet, but I have not done the update till I can figure out
what is happening here -- particularly if I need a rescue cd which is
using zfs 0.7.1.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:54:05 AM CEST John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  In my latest world update, I have sys-fs/zfs and friends at
> 0.7.1 and they all want to update to 9999.  Does anyone know why this
> should be -- normally 9999 is not in the normal update sequence.
> 
> I am using the unstable gentoo, updated about 3 weeks ago.  No harm
> has come yet, but I have not done the update till I can figure out
> what is happening here -- particularly if I need a rescue cd which is
> using zfs 0.7.1.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.

check your keywords, how did you unmask zfs?

Here are mine:

$ grep -r zfs /etc/portage
/etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs
/etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs-kmod
/etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.7.1 ~amd64
/etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-0.7.1 ~amd64
$ grep -r spl /etc/portage
/etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-kernel/spl
/etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1 ~amd64

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Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[John Covici]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:50:20 -0400,
J. Roeleveld wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:54:05 AM CEST John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  In my latest world update, I have sys-fs/zfs and friends at
> > 0.7.1 and they all want to update to 9999.  Does anyone know why this
> > should be -- normally 9999 is not in the normal update sequence.
> > 
> > I am using the unstable gentoo, updated about 3 weeks ago.  No harm
> > has come yet, but I have not done the update till I can figure out
> > what is happening here -- particularly if I need a rescue cd which is
> > using zfs 0.7.1.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> check your keywords, how did you unmask zfs?
> 
> Here are mine:
> 
> $ grep -r zfs /etc/portage
> /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs
> /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs-kmod
> /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.7.1 ~amd64
> /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-0.7.1 ~amd64
> $ grep -r spl /etc/portage
> /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-kernel/spl
> /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1 ~amd64

Yep, I think you are correct, I had the 9999 in package.keywords and I
think this is what made portage do that.
When I commented them out, things are back to normal.

Thanks again.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:34:48 AM CEST John Covici wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:50:20 -0400,
> 
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:54:05 AM CEST John Covici wrote:
> > > Hi.  In my latest world update, I have sys-fs/zfs and friends at
> > > 0.7.1 and they all want to update to 9999.  Does anyone know why this
> > > should be -- normally 9999 is not in the normal update sequence.
> > > 
> > > I am using the unstable gentoo, updated about 3 weeks ago.  No harm
> > > has come yet, but I have not done the update till I can figure out
> > > what is happening here -- particularly if I need a rescue cd which is
> > > using zfs 0.7.1.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> > 
> > check your keywords, how did you unmask zfs?
> > 
> > Here are mine:
> > 
> > $ grep -r zfs /etc/portage
> > /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs
> > /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-fs/zfs-kmod
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.7.1 ~amd64
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-fs/zfs-0.7.1 ~amd64
> > $ grep -r spl /etc/portage
> > /etc/portage/sets/zfs:sys-kernel/spl
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords/zfs:=sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1 ~amd64
> 
> Yep, I think you are correct, I had the 9999 in package.keywords and I
> think this is what made portage do that.
> When I commented them out, things are back to normal.
> 
> Thanks again.

That might have happened automatically as portage tends to want to unmask the 
latest version if it can't find an unmasked version that matches requirements.

I always answer "no" to those requests and copy/paste the actual lines myself 
after checking they are really what I want.

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:34:48AM -0400, John Covici wrote

> Yep, I think you are correct, I had the 9999 in package.keywords and
> I think this is what made portage do that.  When I commented them out,
> things are back to normal.

  Maybe portage inserted that entry itself.  If you want to prevent that
in future, add the following line to make.conf ...

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[John Covici]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:26:20 -0400,
Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:34:48AM -0400, John Covici wrote
> 
> > Yep, I think you are correct, I had the 9999 in package.keywords and
> > I think this is what made portage do that.  When I commented them out,
> > things are back to normal.
> 
>   Maybe portage inserted that entry itself.  If you want to prevent that
> in future, add the following line to make.conf ...
> 
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"

Good point, thanks.

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Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:26:20 PM CEST Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:34:48AM -0400, John Covici wrote
> 
> > Yep, I think you are correct, I had the 9999 in package.keywords and
> > I think this is what made portage do that.  When I commented them out,
> > things are back to normal.
> 
>   Maybe portage inserted that entry itself.  If you want to prevent that
> in future, add the following line to make.conf ...
> 
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"

This should be off by default.
My systems always ask me and I don't have the above set.

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] why zfs and friends want to update to 9999?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 06:09:31 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> >   Maybe portage inserted that entry itself.  If you want to prevent
> > that in future, add the following line to make.conf ...
> > 
> > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"  
> 
> This should be off by default.
> My systems always ask me and I don't have the above set.

It is on by default but it doesn't write to config files, that's
autounmask-write, which is off by default unless you are using --ask.
Even when on it respects CONFIG_PROTECT so no changes will be made until
you run etc-update or similar.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life

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