Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64 <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:36:16
Message-Id: 20081107103611.57599095@ilievnet.com
1 Hi, guys
2
3 Recently, after "emerge --sync && emerge -DuN world" portage started to
4 show me warning that amd64codes is masked by Mr Steve Dibb for security
5 reasons [1].
6
7 Yes, I have amd64codes installed as dependency of mplayer [2], but I'm
8 pleased with my system now and I don't want to damage mplayer by
9 uninstalling those codecs. On the other hand, of course, I don't want to
10 have problematic packages installed. What should I do in this case?
11
12
13
14 [1]:
15 ======
16 !!! The following installed packages are masked:
17 - media-libs/amd64codecs-20071007 (masked by: package.mask)
18 /home/portage/profiles/package.mask:
19 # Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o> (5 Nov 2008)
20 # Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
21
22
23 !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
24 !!! masked or don't exist:
25 media-libs/amd64codecs
26
27 ... done!
28
29 Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
30 =======
31
32
33
34 [2]:
35 =======
36 equery d amd64codecs
37 [ Searching for packages depending on amd64codecs... ]
38 media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 (!bindist & amd64 & real?
39 media-libs/amd64codecs)
40 =======
41
42
43 [3] emerge -pv mplayer
44
45 [binary R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 USE="3dnow
46 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa custom-cflags doc dts dvd encode esd gif iconv
47 jack jpeg ladspa mad mmx mmxext mp3 opengl png quicktime rtc sdl srt
48 sse sse2 theora truetype unicode vorbis x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
49 -aalib (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio
50 -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -dirac -directfb
51 -dv -dvb -dxr3 -enca -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -joystick -libcaca
52 -lirc -live -lzo -md5sum -mp2 -musepack -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm
53 -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar (-real) -samba -schroedinger -speex -ssse3
54 (-svga) -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim
55 -xinerama -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa"
56
57
58
59 --
60 Best regards,
61 Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] [kind of solved] amd64codecs masked Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>