From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-85171-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1Kqni2-0006OU-LX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:41:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 561CEE038E; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29973E038E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0K8V00DHXSH6UJB0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:30 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id m9HBfTpw000377 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id CE855106947; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:28 +0200 (CEST) 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 In-reply-to: <19fb5df1d2ffdbbdaaabd15821b25325@mail> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <tkrat.75aa8e05d676e271@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,431,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="87035811" References: <tkrat.6512f776048f74c6@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <19fb5df1d2ffdbbdaaabd15821b25325@mail> X-Archives-Salt: de823453-f67d-4bc4-b4fd-40d1a3062421 X-Archives-Hash: 8d6c183d628bc6bfa28d77c77ec4c00f 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