From: "Hoël Bézier" <hoelbezier@riseup.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 16:06:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zgq_dpRFO0inmmK8@sparta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zgq8T_QlsKHxUfsV@sparta>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-01 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-29 19:53 [gentoo-user] masked packages n952162
2024-03-29 20:09 ` Jack
2024-04-01 13:19 ` n952162
2024-04-01 13:53 ` Hoël Bézier
2024-04-01 14:06 ` Hoël Bézier [this message]
2024-04-01 16:29 ` n952162
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2008-05-14 11:53 [gentoo-user] Masked Packages Daniel Mendler
2008-05-14 11:59 ` tecnic5
2008-05-14 11:59 ` Justin
2008-05-14 12:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-05-14 12:12 ` Dirk Uys
2007-04-13 9:47 [gentoo-user] Masked packages Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-04-13 9:58 ` Boris Fersing
2007-04-13 10:08 ` W. Barnhoorn
2007-04-13 10:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-05-21 14:11 Daniel D Jones
2006-05-21 14:57 ` Jonathan Chocron
2006-05-21 15:09 ` Teresa and Dale
2006-05-21 18:44 ` Neil Bothwick
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