Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 7:11 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 4:29 PM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:55:53 -0400,
> > Rich Freeman wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So, I have not been able to figure this out, it did not abort and
> > > > wants to install the masked package, so hear is the whole output ---
> > > > thanks for all your help.
> > > >
> > >
> > > What is the actual package.mask set to?  Does the same mask cover both
> > > the installed and upgraded version of gtk+?  It seems odd to me that
> > > emerge would even offer the option to continue if a package was
> > > masked.  You might want to check with the portage team.
> >
> > The line in my /etc/portage/package.mask says
> > >x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30
>
> It looks like the version you already have installed is masked.

Disregard this bit.  Between quotes and
oh-well-I-can't-think-of-a-better-excuse I missed that there is no =
there.  I would check for anything unmasking specific versions but I
have no idea offhand why the upgrade is happening...

-- 
Rich