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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Massive package.mask cleanup
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:41:47
Message-Id: 453BABF6.2070905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Massive package.mask cleanup by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
2 > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:18:52 -0700 David Shakaryan <omp@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | I have created a small script to go through entries in package.mask
5 > | and list those which are masking non-existent packages or versions. I
6 > | then used this list to clean up package.mask. I tried to only remove
7 > | versions that were removed and have a newer version in place, along
8 > | with packages that were removed, but I accidentally /might/ have
9 > | removed other entries, although I doubt it. I kept masks for future
10 > | versions in place, as the maintainer of the package might have wanted
11 > | to mask it ahead of time.
12 >
13 > So what happens when users have an old, masked package installed that's
14 > no longer masked thanks to this change?
15
16 Err, exactly nothing? If they didn't unmerge it, they'll continue to
17 have it installed as they did before?
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22 Best regards,
23
24 Jakub Moc
25 mailto:jakub@g.o
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30 ... still no signature ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Massive package.mask cleanup Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>