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On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:50:12 +0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo! |
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> After synching, I've got a whole lot of programs to emerge, amongst |
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> them being udev-197. :-( I'd rather do this on its own, in peace |
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> and quiet, rather than together with 12 or 13 other programs. |
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> emerge -puND world generates these: |
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> [ebuild U #] sys-fs/udev-197-r4 [171-r9] USE="acl%* kmod%* |
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> openrc%* -doc% -static-libs%" [ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171] |
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> . The # indicates the packages are masked in packages.mask, which |
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> indeed they are. The emerge man-page indicates that these new |
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> versions will nevertheless be merged. But surely this is what the |
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> entry in packages.mask is to prevent? Why does emerge want to merge |
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> udev-197 in this case? How do I stop it? |
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> What am I missing here? |
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My reading of that man page is that the #/*/~ output characters do not |
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indicate what emerge will do, they indicate if any sort of mask exists |
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at the ebuild and tree level. In other words, that udev version is |
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somehow listed in one of the various masking methods and portage is |
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confirming that for you. |
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However, portage is going to install it anyway which can only be |
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because you have some unmask setting (probably a local one) which is |
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overriding the mask setting, you just need to find where you did it. |
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I use this grep to find such things: grep -ir udev /etc/portage |
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As a test I added these to my machine here: |
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# grep -ir udev /etc/portage |
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/etc/portage/package.mask/package.mask:=sys-fs/udev-197-r3 |
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/etc/portage/package.unmask/package.unmask:=sys-fs/udev-197-r3 |
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i.e. I masked and unmasked udev-197-r3. One of them must take |
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precedence, so: |
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# emerge -pv1 udev |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R #] sys-fs/udev-197-r3 USE="acl gudev hwdb introspection |
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keymap kmod openrc -doc (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB |
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In plain English I take that to mean: In spite of a mask existing for |
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the package, portage is going to merge it anyway as something somewhere |
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overrides the mask (and portage unhelpfully declined to tell me where |
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that override is coming from...) |
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-- |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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