Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim upgrade problem

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 04:01, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 03:48 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2007 03:36, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > > I've added
> > > `>net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3' to /etc/portage/package.mask, but nothing
> > > changes. `emerge gaim' still wishes to emerge gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, and
> > > `emerge -Duva world' fails since it cannot build a depgraph including
> > > gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3.
> >
> > You expect >-r3 to mask -r3? Clearly to mask -r3 you need >=..-r3 or
> > >..-r2.
>
> Sorry, I quoted that wrong. I've tried both >-r2, >=-r3 and =-r3.

Allright, you're right. package.unmask overrides package.mask. Therefore 
you'll have to unmask <-r3. And don't need the mask since it's already masked 
in the tree. :)

Also you could just disable the dbus USE flag.

-- 
Bo Andresen