[gentoo-user] package masking question

[gentoo-user] package masking question

[Roy Wright]

Howdy,

I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.
Let me give todays example.

Running ~x86.

gimp-2.3.9 is installed.

gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*

So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.

What would be nice is to be able to mask:

  >=gimp-2.3 if =gimp-perl-2.2_pre1

That would then downgrade gimp to 2.2 and leave it there
until the next version of gimp-perl is available.

As it is, all I can see to do to prevent upgrade/downgrade
cycling of gimp is to package mask >=gimp-2.3 and hopefully
remember to unmask it when the next release of gimp-perl
is available.

It just feels like there ought to be a better way...


Thank you,
Roy
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Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

[Hani Duwaik]

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On 6/27/06, Roy Wright <royw@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.
> Let me give todays example.
>
> Running ~x86.
>
> gimp-2.3.9 is installed.
>
> gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*
>
> So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.
>
> What would be nice is to be able to mask:
>
>   >=gimp-2.3 if =gimp-perl-2.2_pre1
>
> That would then downgrade gimp to 2.2 and leave it there
> until the next version of gimp-perl is available.
>
> As it is, all I can see to do to prevent upgrade/downgrade
> cycling of gimp is to package mask >=gimp-2.3 and hopefully
> remember to unmask it when the next release of gimp-perl
> is available.
>
> It just feels like there ought to be a better way...
>
> Have you tried the suggestion outlined at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3

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The package.mask file

When you don't want Portage to take a certain package or a specific version
of a package into account you can mask it yourself by adding an appropriate
line to /etc/portage/package.mask.

For instance, if you don't want Portage to install newer kernel sources than
gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1, you add the following line to package.mask:

Code Listing 5: /etc/portage/package.mask example

>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1

============================================

Just wondering...

-Hani

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Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

[Roy Wright]

Hani Duwaik wrote:
>> Have you tried the suggestion outlined at:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3
>

Yes, that is just normal package masking.  Maybe I should elaborate.
I like to update daily.  When the occasional blocker or cyclic dependency
hit, I'd like to simply mark it (generate bug report if necessary), and go
on.  Where I find myself failing with the package.mask approach is
remembering some time in the future to go back and remove these
temporary masks.

So I was querying if there is a better process.  Some way to tickle
that the ebuild that caused the problem has been upgraded and that
I should unmask the package.


Thank you,
Roy

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Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

[Benno Schulenberg]

Roy Wright wrote:
> Where I find myself failing
> with the package.mask approach is remembering some time in the
> future to go back and remove these temporary masks.

If you keep the temporary masks at the top of package.mask, you 
could make a wrapper for emerge that after every --sync prints say 
the top five lines of /etc/portage/package.mask, to remind you.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:49:37 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> If you keep the temporary masks at the top of package.mask, you 
> could make a wrapper for emerge that after every --sync prints say 
> the top five lines of /etc/portage/package.mask, to remind you.

Or add comments and grep for ^#

If you wanted to be really cute, you could use /etc/portage/bashrc to
email you when a specific package gets a new version.


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Neil Bothwick

Trekkers work out in the `He's Dead Gym'.

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Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

[AJ Spagnoletti]

On 6/27/06, Roy Wright <royw@cisco.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.
> Let me give todays example.
>
> Running ~x86.
>
> gimp-2.3.9 is installed.
>
> gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*
>
> So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.
>
> What would be nice is to be able to mask:
>
>   >=gimp-2.3 if =gimp-perl-2.2_pre1
>
> That would then downgrade gimp to 2.2 and leave it there
> until the next version of gimp-perl is available.
>

Just a thought here but would it be worthwhile to just modify the
ebuild? instead of
RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*
have this
RDEPEND >=media-gfx/gimp-2.2*

This would allow you to not have to downgrade gimp. Its a possibilty
without more research I wouldnt be able to tell you if its the best
solution or not though

AJ
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