Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] portage masked?

[Peter Ansell]

On 13/02/2008, Aaron Wilson <tallest@×××××.com> wrote:
> On both of my Leopard 10.5.2 prefixed machines after a fresh sync I get:
>
> $ emerge portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies /
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/portage" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.9300 (masked by: package.mask)
> /Users/wilson/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/profiles/default-prefix/
> package.mask:
> # Elias Pipping <pipping@g.o> (09 Fev 2008)
> # There's a bug that causes a lot of pointless output with commands like
> # emerge -u system
>
> - sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.9271 (masked by: package.mask)
> /Users/wilson/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> (09 Feb 2008)
> # First public test releases of portage-2.2
>
> - sys-apps/portage-2.2.00.9233 (masked by: package.mask)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron

I get the same thing, strange thing for me is that I did a bootstrap
install two days ago and it worked perfectly. It looks possibly like a
portage developer has masked the 9271 version in the main profile out
and that has flowed on to hide the version which I used for my
bootstrap.

peter@Macintosh ~/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage $ svn
log --limit 10
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16974 | grobian | 2008-02-09 02:17:56 +1000 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

New snapshot, nothing spectacular
(Portage version: 2.2.00.9300-prefix/svn/Darwin 8.11.0 powerpc)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16570 | grobian | 2008-02-02 08:28:20 +1000 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

Fix issues in generation of the NEEDED file
(Portage version: 2.2.00.9268-prefix/svn/FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16566 | grobian | 2008-02-02 06:24:28 +1000 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

New snapshot, experimental NEEDED recording for Darwin, repoman no
longer knows manifest1 mode
(Portage version: 2.2.00.9268-prefix/svn/FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16430 | grobian | 2008-01-31 06:04:24 +1000 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

New snapshot with important fix for preserve libs
(Portage version: 2.2.00.9233-prefix/svn/Darwin 8.11.0 powerpc)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16429 | grobian | 2008-01-31 05:56:57 +1000 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

Remove faulty version
(Portage version: 2.2.00.9232-prefix/svn/Darwin 8.11.0 powerpc)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

peter@Macintosh ~/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage $ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.00.9271-prefix (default-prefix/darwin/macos/10.5/x86,
gcc-4.0.1, unavailable, 9.1.0 i386)
=================================================================
System uname: 9.1.0 i386 i386
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:36:11 +0000
distcc 2.18.5-Apple.1 powerpc-apple-darwin9.0 (protocols 1 and 2)
(default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r01.1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-macos"
CBUILD="i686-apple-darwin9"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott"
CHOST="i686-apple-darwin9"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott"
DISTDIR="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles"
EPREFIX="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip
parallel-fetch preserve-libs sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
PKGDIR="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Users/peter/Library/Gentoo/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="svn://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/trunk/prefix-overlay"
USE="aqua coreaudio cracklib midi mmx mmxext ncurses nls objc objc++
prefix readline sse sse2 ssl unicode x86-macos zlib"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id
userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk
hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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