Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Masking / qt upgrade
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:51:10
Message-Id: 20061110114853.30832f18@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Masking / qt upgrade by Lorenzo Milesi
1 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:16:46 +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
2
3 > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
4 > page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
5 > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-4.2.1-r1" [ebuild])
6 >
7 > And that's ok. So, in order to upgrade anyway I'm going to mask
8 > qt-4.2.1-r1 by adding
9 > =x11-libs/qt-4.2.1-r1
10 > in my package.mask. Right? Sadly emerge is still blocking because of
11 > the same exact error.
12
13 You only masked qt-4.2.1-r1, not qt-4.2.1, so the same error occurs. Put
14 oe of these in /etc/portage/package.mask
15
16 ~x11-libs/qt-4.2.1
17 >x11-libs/qt-4.2
18
19 The first masks all revisions of qt-4.2.1, the second masks everything
20 greater than 4.2, which is the more brutal approach.
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23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
25
26 If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

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