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From: Stephan Feder <sf@×××××.de>
To: Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge not using latest ebuild (djbdns)
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:18:45
Message-Id: 3E3FBC9A.F317A8F5@b-i-t.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge not using latest ebuild (djbdns) by Joachim Blaabjerg
1 Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:
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6 > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 13:25, Stephan Feder wrote:
7 > > Why does emerge use -r3 (which is known to be broken) instead of -r5? Am
8 > > I missing something?
9 >
10 > This is due to masking. -r5 is masked using KEYWORDS, and declared unstable.
11 > Take a look in the ebuilds; -r5 has KEYWORDS="~x86 ~sparc", while -r3 has
12 > KEYWORDS="x86 sparc". ~x86 is the unstable profile, x86 is stable.
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14 Thanks, that explains it. I never considered -r5 being masked because
15 -r3 is broken (bug #8236) and -r5 is the fix.
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