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 1MgPAD-0003hD-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:13 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 3C13DE08E2; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28C0FE0BBB; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0285FE0BBB for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B833679E3 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.016 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.016 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.417, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ycarVtQajFPz for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D156C67351 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mg976-0003TQ-F6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:23:56 +0200 Received: from athedsl-381660.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.42.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:23:56 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-381660.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:23:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:23:34 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20090826023245.GA5818@solfire> <20090826025229.GB5818@solfire> <20090826031018.GC5818@solfire> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-381660.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090815 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <20090826031018.GC5818@solfire> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ddce01a5-0ac8-4625-9122-f76f6641c73b X-Archives-Hash: 98d851d3dd4576a4988e0673062a2413 On 08/26/2009 06:10 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P > > jpeg-7 is masked It is not, actually. Unless you mean it's keyworded ~arch. But it's not masked. > Without it any update process stops with this > failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output > I posted). Your output tells that something depends on it or that you're explicitly trying to emerge it. > If I install it, many packaged needs to rebuild, for which I > have not the time. Which is why I recommended installing media-libs/jpeg-compat :P > When I want to prevent that, I am urged to install another masked > package. That one is also not masked. Just keyworded ~arch. > Why needs a "non masked" system a masked packed and build against > it (incorporate its masked character) OR needs a compatibility > package which also is masked to not to build (directly) against > the other masked package? > > Or in more peotic words: > To live on, take this poison. If you dont want to get poisoned > take the other poison. > > Sorry, english is not my native code page... Since jpeg-7 is not masked, you can mask it yourself. Try this: =media-libs/jpeg-7 in /etc/portage/packages.mask and see if it helps. Also, at this point, I would be interested in seeing the output of: equery depends media-libs/jpeg to see what is pulling-in jpeg-7.