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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard masked package
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0907170730s46bc2e9doe7528e243d666f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi All,

I didn't have to do this before, so will need help to manage portage:

A particular package has been hard masked for removal.  I would like
to either move it in my local portage, or even better emerge a more
recent version.  So, I found an ebuild, modified it a bit and now I am
trying to emerge it, but it seems that the package.mask won't let me:
=========================================
!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- app-pda/plptools-0.13 (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> (30 May 2009)
# Masked for removal in 60 days. Doesn't build, version bump pending. Designed
# for really old PDA hardware (circa '90s) - will need a maintainer that has
# hardware. bug 227601
=========================================

I am trying to emerge v1.0.8, not 0.13 as shown above.  Should the
above mask stop me emerging it from my local overlay?  How do I allow
a local overlay emerge, while respecting portage's hard mask for
ebuilds in the main tree only?
-- 
Regards,
Mick



             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-17 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-17 14:30 Mick [this message]
2009-07-17 15:02 ` [gentoo-user] Hard masked package Arttu V.
2009-07-17 15:30   ` Mick

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