Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

[Mick]

On Friday 18 May 2007 16:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > eix and portage are telling me:
> > ========================================
> > [D] www-servers/boa
> >      Available versions:  [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20
> > [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21
> >      Installed versions:  0.94.13-r1(16:46:05 03/19/07)(-tetex)
> >      Homepage:            http://www.boa.org/
> >      Description:         Boa - A very small and very fast http daemon
> > ========================================
> >
> > However, http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=boa is still shown as
> > stable.  The Changelog is not showing anything to explain why it has been
> > masked.  Am I missing something?
> >
> > If Boa is indeed a gonner, what would you recommend I use to share my
> > distfiles with other boxen on my LAN?
>
> boa is not masked. What is the output of `emerge -pv boa` ? Perhaps just
> sync or run update-eix ?

Hmm, strange.  I've just emerge-sync'd.  Perhaps a naff mirror? (I think it 
was Stealer.net)
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# emerge -pv boa

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "boa" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
# Raúl Porcel <armin76@g.o> (18 May 2007)
# For treecleaners, bug 102174
# Pending removal 17 Jul 2007

- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_rc21 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.13 (masked by: package.mask)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
- www-servers/boa-0.94.13-r1 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
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Regards,
Mick