Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

["Hoël Bézier" <hoelbezier@riseup.net>]

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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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