[gentoo-user] Gaim upgrade problem

[Fredrik Tolf]

Hi List!

I'm having a little problem with package masking that I just can't seem
to wrap my head around. See, I emerged the Gaim 2 beta by unmasking it
through /etc/portage/package.keywords, and all went fine, until
gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3 came along, which requires a ~x86 dbus, which I
don't want (for a variety of obvious reasons). So I thought to continue
running with gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r2, which is still in portage.

In order to keep `emerge -Duva world' working, I wanted to mask
gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, though, but there's where my problem is. I've added
`>net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3' to /etc/portage/package.mask, but nothing
changes. `emerge gaim' still wishes to emerge gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, and
`emerge -Duva world' fails since it cannot build a depgraph including
gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3. I've never had any problems
with /etc/portage/package.mask in the past -- even now, it's working to
mask >=net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.8.

Does anyone have any idea why it has no effect on gaim? I thought it
might be confused by gaim's version numbers or something, but still it
seems to be able to see that gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3 is newer than
gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r2, so that can't be it, right?

Fredrik Tolf


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