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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:25:09
Message-Id: 5336590C.20206@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv? by Chris Stankevitz
1 On 29/03/2014 01:48, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
2 > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to
4 >> have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but
5 >> you have masked that in package.mask
6 >
7 > Hi Alan,
8 >
9 > I attempted to mask only opencv greater than 2.4.5 (i.e. 2.4.6, 2.4.7,
10 > 2.4.8). I wonder if my greater than symbol was interpreted as a
11 > "reply quote":
12 >
13 > *** jane ~ # grep opencv /etc/portage/package.mask
14 > *** # 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade
15 > *** >media-libs/opencv-2.4.5
16
17 Hi Chris,
18
19 Yes, that's exactly what happened. It's quite funny actually :-)
20
21 You did post emerge output using -t and it shows up at the top level
22 which is a bit odd, it implies portage wants to update opencv anyway,
23 not as a result of it being a dep. Are you sure you didn't keyword
24 opencv and forget about it?
25
26 grep -r opencv /etc/portage
27
28 and to be complete, what are the deps for the package:
29
30 equery depends opencv
31
32
33 --
34 Alan McKinnon
35 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com>