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 1P8O61-0000Ze-0W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:08:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 138F5E0767; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C7CE0767 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxd5 with SMTP id 5so2321352yxd.40 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:06:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OAJ8nHJYoo49qpweXJ6osdTRXiilZPivOH3XsQNyEbw=; b=Io6DgscWiHZzvsqKdDprwgLgkLmmIjCcw7puWg8q7kxkNkZp7ulB7zAnMU+bRVD12T JfDaUx9dXdr0NgG22Sihc4g2yS9GFdnxYIOZp+gc8ehK6ydHuYbZq0a4XnbXlbQQ8z9N w+88v7IHoE6+smYUxyjgyCZD2+NGwjYVivxsg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FXHjVk0CwQ69DzC1Ryl11pUBuZH0YnJmVOY9O7Zr2MrfkAcxzC/uPEAwgNorFAKi8Y ZAaCFj5DEQsry1iENkc5Nx7jmHBsoQ+H54fFBqAiqbcTMSE3/MhnhnX/lLb+bLqvtbpk BQFFiOjeXqzWimPNEcstecdLHgHMswWGBw7F0= Received: by 10.151.10.11 with SMTP id n11mr167009ybi.248.1287540415491; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.110] (cpe-76-94-75-68.socal.res.rr.com [76.94.75.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r29sm5221895ybn.22.2010.10.19.19.06.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CBE4EBC.9070203@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:06:52 -0700 From: Andy Wilkinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100913 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Which Comes First, the Unmask or the Mask? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49ccd418-3075-44e5-8c11-3b61f5aad70e X-Archives-Hash: 0059aa3db08be21ae33015b6da41d674 I believe I know the answer to the question... the real question is, how can I work around it? ;) I am running the development branch of www-client/chromium (currently 8.0.552.0). As a result, I like the latest builds to always be unmasked when they are available. However, once in a while there is a bad apple in the bunch and I'd like to mask that atom specifically. 8.0.552.0 is one of those that I would like masked. What I'd like to do is: /etc/portage/package.unmask: www-client/chromium /etc/portage/package.mask: =www-client/chromium-8.0.552.0 This case shows that, in fact, the mask comes first, as the atom in question is definitely unmasked in that scenario. I have tried putting either line into /etc/portage/profile/package.mask or .unmask, to no effect. I know I could do this by putting noninclusive comparative statements in .unmask, ala: www-client/chromium-8.0.552.0 But this seems somewhat clumsy to me. Does anyone know a trick to do what I'm looking for? Thanks, -Andy