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Dale wrote: |
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> Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> I just ran a system update and got the following warning... |
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>> !!! The following installed packages are masked: |
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>> - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) |
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>> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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>> # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (2017-10-18) |
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>> # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 |
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>> # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with |
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>> # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in |
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>> # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall. |
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>> 1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked? |
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>> 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but... |
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>> [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5 |
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>> * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5: |
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>> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake) |
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>> net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*) |
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>> ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate |
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>> specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in |
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>> /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3 |
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>> I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed. |
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> There's a couple threads on -dev about masking python 2 stuff. It |
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> caused quite a bit of controversy. I don't know if this is related or |
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> not but could it be that some of the packages depend on python 2 OR you |
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> have something set to python 2 only for some reason? |
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> If you can't find any other reason for this, you may want to check into |
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> those threads to see if it is related. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Sorry. I meant to reply to your other thread. When reading previous, |
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apply it to that thread instead of this one. |
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Sorry. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |