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 1RIaYN-0002IU-Sb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:32:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6DAC21C1BC; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DFE21C09E for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D789E1B401B for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:30:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.066 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.066 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.627, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] 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 az4UShCzTuno for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4051B4005 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIaX6-0002Z8-0d for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:30:44 +0200 Received: from athedsl-392591.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.85.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:30:44 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-392591.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:30:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange issue about package.mask Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:30:19 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4EA621C1.3020901@nileshgr.com> 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@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-392591.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4EA621C1.3020901@nileshgr.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6c6bcaadece8fd4c20d33a2952dd5e0e 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.