Re: [gentoo-user] linux-gazette masked: The total pollution of the output :)

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2018, 19:31:52 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:08:59 +0100, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > everytime I emerge something, a LOOOOOONG list
> > of installed linux-gazettes is printed on my terminal,
> > which warns me -- for each single gazette -- that it will
> > be masked.
> > 
> > To find the real output in all this mess is at least difficylt.
> > 
> > Is there a way to supress that output other than deinstalling
> > the linux-gazettes ?
> 
> Add the packages to /etc/portage/profile/package.unmask.
> 
> You'll also need to copy the ebuild directories to a local overlay before
> they are removed fro the portage tree.

I remember that the problem is that the distfiles can't be downloaded:

"Upstream deleted all files more than 6 years ago and is inactive.
 See also bug #628960
 Masked for removal on 2018-02-01"

(For the future: "eix linux-gazette -v -l" will show you the mask message, 
alternatively "grep -r linux-gazette /usr/portage/profiles/" will show you 
which file the mask is defined in.)

Point is, unmasking won't make the ebuilds work.  I would copy everything the 
linux-gazette ebuilds install somewhere else and then uninstall them.

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
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