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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 01:38:20
Message-Id: 348ce68b-90ba-2a7f-a048-58c16ec6b8d0@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> I just ran a system update and got the following warning...
4 >>
5 >> !!! The following installed packages are masked:
6 >> - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
7 >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
8 >> # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (2017-10-18)
9 >> # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
10 >> # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with
11 >> # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in
12 >> # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall.
13 >>
14 >> 1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked?
15 >>
16 >> 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but...
17 >>
18 >> [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5
19 >> * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5:
20 >> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake)
21 >> net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*)
22 >>
23 >> ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate
24 >> specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in
25 >> /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3
26 >>
27 >> I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed.
28 >>
29 >
30 > There's a couple threads on -dev about masking python 2 stuff.  It
31 > caused quite a bit of controversy.  I don't know if this is related or
32 > not but could it be that some of the packages depend on python 2 OR you
33 > have something set to python 2 only for some reason? 
34 >
35 > If you can't find any other reason for this, you may want to check into
36 > those threads to see if it is related.
37 >
38 > Dale
39 >
40 > :-)  :-) 
41 >
42
43 Sorry. I meant to reply to your other thread.  When reading previous,
44 apply it to that thread instead of this one. 
45
46 Sorry.
47
48 Dale
49
50 :-)  :-)