Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question

[Marc Joliet]

Am Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2019, 01:37:17 CET schrieb Walter Dnes:
>   I just ran a system update and got the following warning...
>
> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (2017-10-18)
> # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
> # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with
> # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in
> # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall.
>
> 1)  It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems.  So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked?
>
> 2)  It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but...
>
> [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5
>  * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5:
> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake)
> net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*)

openrdate does not appear to be in the portage tree (it was removed on 
2019-09-17, specifically because of its dependency on automake 1.9).  I 
suppose you put it in a local overlay or something?

>   ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate
> specifically wants automake-1.9*.  The next version upwards in
> /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3
>
>   I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed.

"git log" to the rescue: commit 85fb9e060cbba2053036988833c2affc9bb6d454 
("profiles/package.mask: extend automake mask to :1.9") extended the mask 
without updating the comment, and refers to https://bugs.gentoo.org/489450, 
which I haven't bothered checking.

HTH
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Marc Joliet
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