Re: [gentoo-user] Gaim upgrade problem

[Fredrik Tolf]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 04:08 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> 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.

Aha! There was the problem. I had completely forgotten that I had had to
p.unmask previously, since it was masked in the tree.

> And don't need the mask since it's already masked
> in the tree. :)

Actually, it seems it isn't any longer, so I could just remove the entry
from p.unmask and it worked.

Thanks!

Fredrik Tolf


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