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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:51:47
Message-Id: 475AD85B.6070700@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit by John covici
1 John covici schrieb:
2 > on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov(rumen@××××××.org) wrote
3 > > John covici ??????:
4 > > > Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am sending
5 > > > it again.
6 > > >
7 > > > Hi. I was trying to do an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world
8 > > > and got the following error:
9 > > >
10 > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/policykit-0.6" have
11 > > > been masked.
12 > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
13 > > > request:
14 > > > - sys-auth/policykit-0.6 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
15 > > > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
16 > > > # Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o> (23 Nov 2007)
17 > > > # Mask this until we get the input and mounting issues worked out
18 > > >
19 > > > In view of this comment, should I unmaks it anyway and if not, how can
20 > > > I get past this one?
21 > > >
22 > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
23 > > >
24 > > Hi,
25 > > Just add "-t"(--tree) to your emerge command, it'll probably show which
26 > > app requires policykit.
27 > > Then mask the update (not policykit) till the issues are fixed.
28 > > Or omit --deep which could eventually help here.
29 >
30 >
31 > Well it said that dependency required by "sys-apps/hal-0.5.10"
32 > [ebuild] so how do I prevent the update of hal and still be able
33 > to let the rest of them go through? The -t gave nothing more.
34 >
35
36 sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 is masked itself. Why have you unmasked it?
37
38 Remove the unmask of hal-0.5.10 and go back to version 0.5.9.1-r3, The
39 masked version needs policykit, so no way around this!
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Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>