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Hmmm...and I know for a fact that perl-5.6.1-r10 is *not* masked on any platform other than MIPS, and I somehow doubt you are running this on a MIPS. |
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Incidentally, perl 5.8 was just unmasked for x86. |
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Mike - the perl maintainer |
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:15:28 +0000 |
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Benj <ben@××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Friday 27 December 2002 1:02 pm, Henti Smith wrote: |
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> > hi there .. |
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> > this is not the first time this has happened .. but when I try emerge -u |
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> > system I get errors about masked packages. How can a maksed package be part |
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> > of a system update ? |
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> > is this not really silly ? |
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> Agreed, it does seem strange... I just got this: |
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> root@maya apache # emerge -up world |
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> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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> Calculating world dependencies \ |
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> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r10" have been |
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> masked. |
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> !!! (dependency required by "dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4" [ebuild]) |
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> Looks like the DEPEND in the MakeMaker ebuild has barfed. |
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> Now, I will file a bug, and normally this all Just Works (tm), but dependency |
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> nightmares for system ebuilds seems a bit of a bad thing. |
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> just my 2p |
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> /ben |
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