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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 01:36:40
Message-Id: e6ab3a81-2af2-cb1d-7b83-789b73a4615f@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > I just ran a system update and got the following warning...
3 >
4 > !!! The following installed packages are masked:
5 > - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
6 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
7 > # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> (2017-10-18)
8 > # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
9 > # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with
10 > # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in
11 > # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall.
12 >
13 > 1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked?
14 >
15 > 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but...
16 >
17 > [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5
18 > * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5:
19 > mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake)
20 > net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*)
21 >
22 > ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate
23 > specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in
24 > /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3
25 >
26 > I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed.
27 >
28
29
30 There's a couple threads on -dev about masking python 2 stuff.  It
31 caused quite a bit of controversy.  I don't know if this is related or
32 not but could it be that some of the packages depend on python 2 OR you
33 have something set to python 2 only for some reason? 
34
35 If you can't find any other reason for this, you may want to check into
36 those threads to see if it is related.
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-)  :-) 

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