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From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:09:57
Message-Id: AANLkTik-TpefN2xEftzTHc-h772PA6FJZ27pJ=4raqeX@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi all,
2
3 This morning I got
4
5 centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world
6
7 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8
9 Calculating dependencies... done!
10 <snip/>
11 [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE="semantic-desktop
12 (-aqua) -debug -doc -examples (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" 0 kB
13 [1=>0]
14 <snip/>
15
16 Total: 9 packages (7 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of
17 downloads: 10,550 kB
18 Portage tree and overlays:
19 [0] /usr/portage
20 [1] /var/lib/layman/kde
21
22 I decided that I did not want to go back to 4.5.1 so I added
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24 =kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1
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26 to /etc/portage/package.mask.
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28 To my utmost surprise, I got the exact same result as before when
29 running the above emerge command again. I tried it with one of the
30 other upgrades mentioned and package.mask had the expected result.
31
32 So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect
33 for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade?
34
35 Cheers,
36 Hilco

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask John Campbell <jdc.rpv@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>