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Michael, |
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Unless I am mistaken this problem is completely solved by |
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/etc/portage/package.{mask,unmask,keyword} read man portage for info. |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Operational Lead |
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Gentoo/macos |
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Michael Marineau wrote: |
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| Michael Marineau wrote: |
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| | I have a couple questions about why portage handles masked packages. |
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| oops, typo. *how* portage handles masked packages. |
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| | First of all, when a specific masked package is emerged (usually a |
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| | ~mask) and |
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| | it is depended on by another package emerge -UD world will fail because |
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| | of the |
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| | masked dependency. This can be avoided by specifically unmasking the |
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| | package, |
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| | but that can be a bit tedious if this situation is a common occurrence. |
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| | Failing seems the right thing to do if the masked package is not already |
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| | installed, but if the package is already installed it would make sense |
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| | to me |
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| | that portage realizes that the dependency is already met and not die. |
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| | Another thought that I made a comment on in the GLEP 19 thread is that |
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| if a |
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| | package is removed from the portage tree, later when upgrading another |
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| | the user |
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| | will be forced to upgrade(or downgrade if upgrades are masked) that |
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| | package to, |
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| | even if they wanted to keep the existing version. To get around this |
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| | the user |
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| | must save the old ebuild to their portage overly. I think it would make |
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| | more |
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| | sense to let the existing set of installed packages behave as another |
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| | portage |
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| | overly so that it is easy to hold on existing packages. This would also |
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| | avoid |
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| | any accidental downgrades if a package was ~arch masked, but then |
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| | removed from |
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| | portage in favor of a newer version. |
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| | Michael Marineau |
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| | marineam@×××××××××.edu |
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| | Oregon State University |
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