Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile masking and profiles package.mask

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 20:06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:39, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > isnt that the point of putting a comment above a mask ?
> > # this package wont work on this profile
> > bar/foo
>
> Indeed, but the problem is that the masks are all normalised in one big
> mask. Which means that users might want to unmask certain versions found in
> the top-level profile.mask, and also unmask some of the packages masked in
> a profile.

i dont understand what you're trying to say here ... the behavior you're 
describing sounds correct to me ... provide some examples ?

> > fbsd/packages:sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs
> > fbsd/package.mask:<nothing>
> > fbsd/6.1/packages:<nothing>
> > fbsd/6.1/package.mask:>=sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs-6.2
> > fbsd/6.2/packages:<nothing>
> > fbsd/6.2/package.mask:<nothing>
>
> Actually, you need to mask < versions, too ...

sure ... not that people should be downgrading in the first place (glibc 
ebuilds prevent this), but you are correct

> Note to Danny: releng controls default-linux, okay, but there are other
> profiles than those, hardened and Gentoo/Alt. The decision should have been
> taken by all the three of us, not unilaterally.

there is no central body for profiles ... and more projects than just these 
three are affected
-mike