* [gentoo-user] Strange issue about package.mask
@ 2011-10-25 2:41 Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-25 6:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Nilesh Govindarajan @ 2011-10-25 2:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo User Mailing List
I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use
libreoffice-bin instead.
To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to
package.mask
But there's a strange thing going on here.
If the contents of package.mask are like this:
app-office/libreoffice
equery u libreoffice shows me the unstable version (9999)
while if the contents are like this:
-app-office/libreoffice
equery u libreoffice shows the proper one, 3.4.3 (~amd64).
Also, with other packages this is not the issue. They get masked
(instead of getting unmasked) without that hyphen in the beginning.
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Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Strange issue about package.mask
2011-10-25 2:41 [gentoo-user] Strange issue about package.mask Nilesh Govindarajan
@ 2011-10-25 6:30 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2011-10-25 6:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 10/25/2011 05:41 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> I don't want to compile the big thing - libreoffice, so I use
> libreoffice-bin instead.
> To prevent myself from emerging libreoffice by mistake, I add it to
> package.mask
> But there's a strange thing going on here.
> If the contents of package.mask are like this:
> app-office/libreoffice
>
> equery u libreoffice shows me the unstable version (9999)
>
> while if the contents are like this:
> -app-office/libreoffice
>
> equery u libreoffice shows the proper one, 3.4.3 (~amd64).
>
> Also, with other packages this is not the issue. They get masked
> (instead of getting unmasked) without that hyphen in the beginning.
equery seems to try to avoid masked packages. I guess when every
version of a package is masked, it just picks the latest available.
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