[gentoo-user] masked packages

[gentoo-user] masked packages

[n952162]

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Hello.

I'd like to emerge *radicale*, but see it's masked for amd, etc.  I
looked at the portage meta data and the ebuild to see if I could find
out why it should be masked - it's just a python program, supposedly. 
But I can't find out anything.  This warnings are unequivocal about
unmasking a package if you don't know why it's masked
(https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Unmasking_a_package). Does
anybody have any ideas?


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Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

[Jack]

On 2024.03.29 15:53, n952162 wrote:
> I'd like to emerge *radicale*, but see it's masked for amd, etc.  I
> looked at the portage meta data and the ebuild to see if I could find
> out why it should be masked - it's just a python program, supposedly. 
> But I can't find out anything.  This warnings are unequivocal about
> unmasking a package if you don't know why it's masked
> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Unmasking_a_package).  
> Does
> anybody have any ideas?

I see www-apps/radicale-3.1.8 marked as testing, but not masked.  The  
place to look for masking reasons is /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask  
(or wherever your portage tree lives.)

However, if I search for radicale, I only see the one package, and the  
associated acct-group and acct-user, so I don't know if you just used *  
to quote the name, or if there are related packages I'm not seeing.

Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

[n952162]

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On 3/29/24 21:09, Jack wrote:
>
> I see www-apps/radicale-3.1.8 marked as testing, but not masked. The
> place to look for masking reasons is
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask (or wherever your portage tree lives.)
>
> However, if I search for radicale, I only see the one package, and the
> associated acct-group and acct-user, so I don't know if you just used
> * to quote the name, or if there are related packages I'm not seeing.


Thank you.

How do you see that radicale is marked for testing?

I don't have /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask on my system, but I
found a second package.mask in

         /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask

but it doesn't mention radicale.

Are you saying that if a package is "masked", portage is only aware of
that fact because it's specified in a file on my system? But it's also
shown as "masked" here:

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-apps/radicale.

The actual error mesg:

/      !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "radicale" have been masked.//
//      !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
your request://
//      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.7::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
//      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.5::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
/

The asterisks were supplied by thunderbird (or something thereafter) to
implement the "Bold" font I specified.

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Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

[Hoël Bézier]

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Hi,

Am Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:19:27PM +0200 schrieb n952162:
>How do you see that radicale is marked for testing?
>
> [snip]
>
>The actual error mesg:
>
>/      !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "radicale" have been masked.//
>//      !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
>your request://
>//      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.7::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
>//      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.5::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
>/

The ~amd64 keyword means www-apps/radicale is only available on testing, 
otherwise the keyword would have been amd64 (without the tilde). So portage is 
telling you it can’t install www-apps/radicale-3.1.7 because it’s only 
available on testing, which it does by saying it’s “masked by [the] ~amd64 
keyword”. 

That’s a different thing than masking a package using a package.mask file, 
where the package is technically available for your architecture but someone 
(usually you or the gentoo developpers) decided it wasn’t fit to be installed: 
for instance the recent discovery of a backdoor in xz-utils-5.4.6 led the 
gentoo developpers to mask this package, by adding it to the 
/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask file which you retrieved by syncing 
your gentoo tree.

Hoël

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Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

[Hoël Bézier]

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Am Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:53:19PM +0200 schrieb Hoël Bézier:
>That’s a different thing than masking a package using a package.mask file,
>where the package is technically available for your architecture but someone
>(usually you or the gentoo developpers) decided it wasn’t fit to be installed:
>for instance the recent discovery of a backdoor in xz-utils-5.4.6 led the

xz-utils-5.6.0, my bad. See lines 46 to 60 of 
/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask.

>gentoo developpers to mask this package, by adding it to the
>/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask file which you retrieved by syncing
>your gentoo tree.

Hoël

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Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

[n952162]

On 4/1/24 15:53, Hoël Bézier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:19:27PM +0200 schrieb n952162:
>> How do you see that radicale is marked for testing?
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The actual error mesg:
>>
>> /      !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "radicale" have been masked.//
>> //      !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
>> your request://
>> //      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.7::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
>> //      - www-apps/radicale-3.1.5::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)//
>> /
>
> The ~amd64 keyword means www-apps/radicale is only available on
> testing, otherwise the keyword would have been amd64 (without the
> tilde). So portage is telling you it can’t install
> www-apps/radicale-3.1.7 because it’s only available on testing, which
> it does by saying it’s “masked by [the] ~amd64 keyword”.
> That’s a different thing than masking a package using a package.mask
> file, where the package is technically available for your architecture
> but someone (usually you or the gentoo developpers) decided it wasn’t
> fit to be installed: for instance the recent discovery of a backdoor
> in xz-utils-5.4.6 led the gentoo developpers to mask this package, by
> adding it to the /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask file which
> you retrieved by syncing your gentoo tree.
>
> Hoël


Thank you, very informative.

[gentoo-user] Masked Packages

[Daniel Mendler]

Hi,

I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages are 
installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those packages?

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

[tecnic5]

Dunno if this will get you every masked package, but at least should be 
quite close; if you run

emerge -pv --emptytree world

you can check the packages that are being downgraded, quite probably the 
reason for this downgrading will be that the installed version is a masked 
one.

Just an idea.

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SILVANO CONSULTORES 
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Daniel Mendler <dmendler@wurzelteiler.de>
14/05/2008 13:53
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        Asunto: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

Hi,

I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages are 
installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those packages?

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

[Justin]

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Daniel Mendler schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages 
> are installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those 
> packages?
>
> Daniel
>
See this

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Keywords
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Regenerate_package_keywords

Both tips can help you to find those packages.

Another way is

$ eix -uc|grep '\[D\]'.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Daniel Mendler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a lot of masked packages installed on my system. The packages
> are installed but not unmasked. Is there an easy way to find those
> packages?

How can you have a masked package installed but have not unmasked it? 

To find all sorts of oddities with your portage config files, run:

eix-test-obsolete

You may have to emerge eix first to get it

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

[Dirk Uys]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How can you have a masked package installed but have not unmasked it?


By setting the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag in the command line when emerging?
Haven't done that for a while though, so I wouldn't know if
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated since?
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[gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Johannes Skov Frandsen]

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Hi

I posted a question yesterday about masked packages and got a lot of
answers on how to use it, but didn't really needed it for the task I was
trying to accomplish. Now however i fear there is no way around it.

After reading trough the different posts I figured that the way to go
would be to add a line to the 'package.keywords' file in /etc/portage.

So i did the following:

echo "dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -av dev-php5/phpunit

My problem is that emerge still ain't to happy... it prints out:

Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5

Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Boris Fersing]

2007/4/13, Johannes Skov Frandsen <joe@omesc.com>:
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> Hi

Hi,

>
> I posted a question yesterday about masked packages and got a lot of
> answers on how to use it, but didn't really needed it for the task I was
> trying to accomplish. Now however i fear there is no way around it.
>
> After reading trough the different posts I figured that the way to go
> would be to add a line to the 'package.keywords' file in /etc/portage.
>
> So i did the following:
>
> echo "dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> emerge -av dev-php5/phpunit
>
> My problem is that emerge still ain't to happy... it prints out:
>
> Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5
>
> Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.

Try without the version : dev-php5/phpunit it'll work better ;)

Read 'man portage' if you want to know more about the /etc/portage/ files ;)

HTH.

Boris.
>
>
> - --
> Regards / Venlig hilsen
>
> Johannes Skov Frandsen
>
> *Address:* Egelundsvej 18, DK-5260 Odense S
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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[W. Barnhoorn]

Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:

> echo "dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> emerge -av dev-php5/phpunit
>  ..
> Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5

You used the version number of the package, and that why portage complains.
The right line should be:

"dev-php5/phpunit ~x86" in package.keywords

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Friday 13 April 2007 11:47, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:

> My problem is that emerge still ain't to happy... it prints out:
>
> Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5

Just put the name of the package without the version number:

echo "dev-php5/phpunit ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
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[gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Daniel D Jones]

I get the following error:

root@Merlin:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- net-misc/neon-0.25.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- net-misc/neon-0.25.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
!!!    (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])

!!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
!!! Depgraph creation failed.


Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system.  (I don't even use gnome.)  
Should I simply unmask neon or is there a better way to handle this error?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Jonathan Chocron]

Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit :
> I get the following error:
>
> root@Merlin:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies -
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" have been
> masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> your request: - net-misc/neon-0.25.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> - net-misc/neon-0.25.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> !!!    (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])
>
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
>
>
> Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system.  (I don't even use
> gnome.) Should I simply unmask neon or is there a better way to handle this
> error?

One of your package must depend on gnome-vfs, and tries to pull it when you 
emerge -Dup world (maybe it's just the upgrade that depends on it, most 
probably because of a new useflag).

You could just unmask neon, but IMHO, gnome-vfs and neon would be installed on 
your system during the upgrade process, and I don not think that's something 
you want.

Try a qdepends -Q gnome-vfs to figure out what package is pulling it, and 
fiddle the useflags accordingly.

BTW, what version of portage are you using ?

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Teresa and Dale]

Jonathan Chocron wrote:

>Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit :
>  
>
>>I get the following error:
>>
>>root@Merlin:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world
>>
>>These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
>>
>>Calculating world dependencies -
>>!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/neon-0.25.3" have been
>>masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
>>your request: - net-misc/neon-0.25.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>>- net-misc/neon-0.25.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>>
>>For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
>>refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>>!!!    (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])
>>
>>!!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
>>!!! Depgraph creation failed.
>>
>>
>>Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system.  (I don't even use
>>gnome.) Should I simply unmask neon or is there a better way to handle this
>>error?
>>    
>>
>
>One of your package must depend on gnome-vfs, and tries to pull it when you 
>emerge -Dup world (maybe it's just the upgrade that depends on it, most 
>probably because of a new useflag).
>
>You could just unmask neon, but IMHO, gnome-vfs and neon would be installed on 
>your system during the upgrade process, and I don not think that's something 
>you want.
>
>Try a qdepends -Q gnome-vfs to figure out what package is pulling it, and 
>fiddle the useflags accordingly.
>
>BTW, what version of portage are you using ?
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Jonathan
>
>
>  
>


You could add the -t option to see what is bringing it in too.  I'm bad
to do this:

emerge -uvtp world and then see what is happening and what pulls in what
including USE flags.  Can add the -D option if needed.

Dale
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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:11:55 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> !!!    (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1" [ebuild])
> 
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> 
> 
> Curiously, gnome-vfs isn't installed on my system.  (I don't even use
> gnome.) 

gnome-vfs is a dependency of unison, see
equery depgraph unison | grep vfs


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