From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 806D4138334 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 04:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B24AE0BD2; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 04:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from covici.com (unknown [IPv6:2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe88:662a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2DAFE0BB3 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 04:22:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [70.109.53.110]) (authenticated bits=0) by covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-8) with ESMTPSA id w974M9vQ016489 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 00:22:27 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id w974Lwnc011672 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 00:21:58 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.13.7/Submit) id w974LwCj011671; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 00:21:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:21:58 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package In-Reply-To: <16380260.myZA5TG4Fi@bluering> References: <16380260.myZA5TG4Fi@bluering> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/26 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems 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 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 88c92474-29bf-412c-bdf4-4ede5e12c9b2 X-Archives-Hash: 2b5848b4acf020d6086a102d10b82732 On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:39:42 -0400, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 October 2018 8:34:39 AM AEDT Jack wrote: > > On 2018.10.06 16:29, John Covici wrote: > > > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:55:53 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM John Covici > > > > > > wrote: > > >>> So, I have not been able to figure this out, it did not abort and > > >>> wants to install the masked package, so hear is the whole output > > >>> --- thanks for all your help. > > >> > > >> What is the actual package.mask set to? Does the same mask cover > > >> both the installed and upgraded version of gtk+? It seems odd to me > > >> that emerge would even offer the option to continue if a package was > > >> masked. You might want to check with the portage team. > > > > > > The line in my /etc/portage/package.mask says > > > x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > > > For a specific version, you probably want that to be > > =x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > or > > > > >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > > > although the # in > > [ebuild U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo] > > seems to show it knows it is listed in package.mask. > > > Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you > might want to try: > > --autounmask-keep-masks y > > I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked. Thanks for the tip, I never heard of that one. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com