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

[Jack]

On 2018.10.06 16:29, John Covici 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

For a specific version, you probably want that to be
  =x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30
or
  >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30

although the # in
[ebuild     U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo]
seems to show it knows it is listed in package.mask.

Jack