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From: Rolf Offermanns <rolf@××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] masking question (flex-2.5.4a-r5 / xfree-4.2.1)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:08:14
Message-Id: 131670000.1034514525@wildsau.local.wg
1 Can anyone help me with the following?
2
3 When I do an emerge -s flex, I get
4 * sys-devel/flex
5 Latest version available: 2.5.4a-r4
6 Latest version installed: 2.5.4a-r4
7 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
8 Description: GNU lexical analyser generator
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10 There is an -r5 ebuild in the portage dir. and this version is not masked,
11 so why isn't it listed in the search?
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13 Almost the same with the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild. This one is masked but if I
14 unmask it, I still get the 4.2.0-r12 version listed.
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16 When i try to give the 4.2.1 ebuild on the emerge command line I get the
17 following:
18 These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
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20 Calculating dependencies |
21
22 emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5" (from
23 ebuild / x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 merge) have been masked.
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25 I am confused. What does that mean and where is it masked?
26
27 -Rolf
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32 Rolf Offermanns <rolf@××××××××××.de>
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