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From: Martin Lesser <gentoo@××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/portage/package.unmask not working as expected
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:20:42
Message-Id: 87ad8tknru.fsf@nb-acer.better-com.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/portage/package.unmask not working as expected by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> writes:
2
3 > db-4.0 and db-4.1 are NOT compatible. Applications linked against 4.0 will not
4 > work with 4.1, so they need to be slotted differently.
5
6 Ok. We upgraded db-3.X several months ago directly to 4.1.X and changed
7 the slot in 4.1.X to SLOT="4" cause the only app which needed db-4.X was
8 openldap-2.1.X
9
10 At the moment I don't want to downgrade my slapd-dbs to 4.0.
11
12 > db-4.1 is masked in the profiles
13
14 No:
15 # grep sys-libs/db /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
16 =sys-libs/db-3.3.11
17
18 > See above. Putting =sys-libs/db-4.1.* in /etc/portage/package.unmask should
19 > work
20
21 Unfortunatelly not:
22
23 # cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
24 =sys-libs/db-4.1.*
25
26 # emerge -Up world
27 >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
28
29 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
30
31 Calculating world dependencies /
32 !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/db" have been masked.
33
34 At the moment this implies that I can't emerge -U world where at least
35 68 (!) packages should be updated :-(
36
37 Martin
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