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From: Andrei Ivanov <andrei.ivanov@××××.ro>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/portage/package.unmask not working as expected
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:43:43
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0309251641560.22140@webdev.ines.ro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/portage/package.unmask not working as expected by Martin Lesser
1 Edit /etc/make.profile/packages, find db, and replace that line with
2
3 *sys-libs/db-4
4
5 Works for me... but after every sync, you have to do this again... :(
6
7 On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Martin Lesser wrote:
8
9 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> writes:
10 >
11 > > db-4.0 and db-4.1 are NOT compatible. Applications linked against 4.0 will not
12 > > work with 4.1, so they need to be slotted differently.
13 >
14 > Ok. We upgraded db-3.X several months ago directly to 4.1.X and changed
15 > the slot in 4.1.X to SLOT="4" cause the only app which needed db-4.X was
16 > openldap-2.1.X
17 >
18 > At the moment I don't want to downgrade my slapd-dbs to 4.0.
19 >
20 > > db-4.1 is masked in the profiles
21 >
22 > No:
23 > # grep sys-libs/db /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
24 > =sys-libs/db-3.3.11
25 >
26 > > See above. Putting =sys-libs/db-4.1.* in /etc/portage/package.unmask should
27 > > work
28 >
29 > Unfortunatelly not:
30 >
31 > # cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
32 > =sys-libs/db-4.1.*
33 >
34 > # emerge -Up world
35 > >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
36 >
37 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
38 >
39 > Calculating world dependencies /
40 > !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/db" have been masked.
41 >
42 > At the moment this implies that I can't emerge -U world where at least
43 > 68 (!) packages should be updated :-(
44 >
45 > Martin
46 >
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