[gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[tuxic]

Hi,

I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
in this manner works as exspected.
Also the docs are of that opinion, too:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask

BUT!

host:/root>crossdev -t arm-none-eabi                           
-                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 * crossdev version:      20200131
 * Host Portage ARCH:     amd64
 * Host Portage System:   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 * Target Portage ARCH:   arm
 * Target System:         arm-none-eabi
 * Stage:                 3 (C compiler & libc)
 * USE=multilib:          yes
 * Target ABIs:           default

 * binutils:              binutils-[latest]
 * gcc:                   gcc-[latest]
 * libc:                  newlib-[latest]

 * CROSSDEV_OVERLAY:      /var/db/repos/localrepo
 * PORT_LOGDIR:           /var/log/portage
 * PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT:    /
 * Portage flags:         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 * error: please convert //etc/portage/package.mask to a directory
 * 


urges me to make a directory out of it.
After doing so, the command starts.

I am confused....slightly...

;)

?

Cheers,
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:56:19 +0200, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:

> I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
> in this manner works as exspected.
> Also the docs are of that opinion, too:

Are they> From man portage:

/etc/portage/
              Files in this directory including make.conf, repos.conf,
and any file with a name that begins with "package." can be more than
just a flat file.  If it  is  a  directory, then all the files in that
directory will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and
summed together as if it were a single file.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

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Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[Daniel Frey]

On 4/18/20 10:56 AM, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
> in this manner works as exspected.
> Also the docs are of that opinion, too:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask
> 
> BUT!
> 
>   * error: please convert //etc/portage/package.mask to a directory
>   *
> 
> 
> urges me to make a directory out of it.
> After doing so, the command starts.
> 
> I am confused....slightly...
> 

The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I have been 
gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they all need to be 
changed to the directory layout.

If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've already 
taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the directory layout, and 
split out the packages to individual files. You don't have to go that 
far though, the entries can stay in one file under the new directory 
structure.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[John Covici]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:23:28 -0400,
Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
> On 4/18/20 10:56 AM, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
> > in this manner works as exspected.
> > Also the docs are of that opinion, too:
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask
> > 
> > BUT!
> > 
> >   * error: please convert //etc/portage/package.mask to a directory
> >   *
> > 
> > 
> > urges me to make a directory out of it.
> > After doing so, the command starts.
> > 
> > I am confused....slightly...
> > 
> 
> The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I
> have been gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they
> all need to be changed to the directory layout.
> 
> If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've
> already taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the
> directory layout, and split out the packages to individual
> files. You don't have to go that far though, the entries can stay
> in one file under the new directory structure.

I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier
to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate
entries this way.

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

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:12:02 -0400, John Covici wrote:

> > The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I
> > have been gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they
> > all need to be changed to the directory layout.
> > 
> > If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've
> > already taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the
> > directory layout, and split out the packages to individual
> > files. You don't have to go that far though, the entries can stay
> > in one file under the new directory structure.  
> 
> I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier
> to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate
> entries this way.

Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer a separate file for a package and
its dependencies. Then if I uninstall that package, I can simply delete
the file.

eix-test-obsolete should find duplicate entries, although that hasn't
been an issue so far.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The considered application of terror is also a form of communication.

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[gentoo-user] Re: dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2020-04-19 12:12, John Covici wrote:

> I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier
> to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate
> entries this way.

Well, as Daniel wrote, you can still keep all the entries in a single
file; you just have to move the file one level down the directory
hierarchy.

I agree though, it seems pointless, and likely to make portage start up
time even longer.

-- 
Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:12:02PM -0400, John Covici wrote
> 
> I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier
> to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate
> entries this way.

  /etc/portage/package.use/package.use  (giggle)

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