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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mask a package
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:55
Message-Id: 200907021300.32717.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't mask a package by Pupino
1 On Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009, Pupino wrote:
2 > Hello everybody,
3 > i'm having troubles with the policykit package, and i've discovered
4 > that the new version (0.92) has broken all APIs and this causes some
5 > packages to not compile anymore (network manager in my case).
6 > So i tried to mask it and keep the 0.9-r1 version instead, but with no
7 > result. I've added it to /etc/portage/package.mask and tried this forms:
8 > =sys-auth/policykit-0.92
9 >
10 > >=sys-auth/policykit-0.92
11 >
12 > and also
13 > sys-auth/policykit-0.92
14 > that should prenvet any version of it being merged, right?
15 > none of those attempts worked for me, and emerge keeps trying to merge
16 > it... i'm running a x86 system with no accept keywords set.
17 > any ideas?
18 >
19 > Thanks in advance.
20 > Davide
21
22 have you unmasked policykit?
23
24 because if you did - package.unmask always overrules package.mask. So you have
25 to be very specific when unmasking stuff.