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From: Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] perl is masked
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 03:15:08
Message-Id: b64ef0ce0905022014k64e335a8vd15bffc0e2193029@mail.gmail.com
1 dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r6 is masked by official portage maintainer due to
2 security issues.
3 <quote>
4 $ emerge perl -vat
5
6 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
7
8 Calculating dependencies... done!
9
10 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-lang/perl" have been masked.
11 !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
12 - dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r6 (masked by: package.mask)
13 /Users/hongqn/Gentoo/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
14 # Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> (28 Jan 2009)
15 # Masked for testing (#249629)
16 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79685#c14
17
18
19 For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
20 man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
21 </quote>
22
23 However, in the prefix portage tree, no ebuild other than the masked
24 one can be found.
25 <quote>
26 $ ls $EPREFIX/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl
27 ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml perl-5.8.8-r6.ebuild
28 </quote>
29
30 So nobody can emerge dev-lang/perl without unmask it by hand. Should
31 this be fixed?
32
33
34 --
35 Qiangning Hong

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Re: [gentoo-alt] perl is masked Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>