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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts
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On 17 Oct, Xav' wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch
> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> hopefully someone can help me!
>> 
>> Trying to update one of my machines I did
>> 
>> emerge --update --deep --pretend world
>> 
>> but it stops early with
>> All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0"
>> have been masked.
>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
>> request:
>> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.6.0-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
> 
> As portage tell you, you have to check the package.mask file in
> /etc/portage, where it seems that the version 1.3.0 is masked.

This doesn't contain a mask but
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask contains
>=app-admin/system-tools-backends-2

So, is this a bug?

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany