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 1MRoRm-0005h0-IY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:30:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91548E0512; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7B3E0512 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so674323fxm.34 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nx7hXvV1Z1bdNvt43p1UP2G3GbUIWmSnhkIPeJfdNeU=; b=PxPJK4CJmqzLYxvphpd5YKiM3h2JWazREemaqbqN72mtgI8lz+GXQCynsFErPQALII EAqE/8luLyQwZXjWJU415iR2tRagYthA/SzdQ/R2rFtVwlhD6UBGNj/98dQBe6X7zamq LVl7RVHJ907VNCs3/kzqyg9QLbx4k+aLGIcv0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=AV9p91WdJp2LEacNE3whGKCd37mocCrsOml/HEHjNVbwg7sCXXVeM70d7aM34T1Nhy c970IOoGNkVIyOW8U0JK1TnRf5IUrbt1IL8AHsLd7gXSakZqcOGJ8nIxd1Mk7kzZLzpb ctujTzPWLnuLwYfOZEjPJiA7Qeedg5NhvZ5bg= 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 Received: by 10.103.160.10 with SMTP id m10mr581966muo.50.1247841000578; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0100 Message-ID: <358eca8f0907170730s46bc2e9doe7528e243d666f1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard masked package From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ebead35e-2fc5-4f2b-8950-1613448cd125 X-Archives-Hash: 36d4851b4bc8b25db47e5f473c0d3f76 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 (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