Bug 290563 – [gnome overlay] gnome-base/gdm-2.28 mask blocks gnome-2.28.1 upgrade

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description George Prowse 2009-10-26 13:05:01 UTC]

when updating I get a message about gnome-base/gdm being masked by package.mask and because gnome-base/gdm-2.28.1-r1 hard masked and it is a Gnome dep, emerge stops and doesn't continue with any updates. Very annoying.

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=gnome-base/gdm-2.28.1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- gnome-base/gdm-2.28.1-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Nirbheek Chauhan <[e-mail]> (10 Jun 2009)
# Several feature regressions that will make our users
# go on a witchhunt if unmasked
# * No XDMCP connection UI
# * No configuration/theming support
# * No support for auth backends other than PAM
# * Many more...

(dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-2.28.1" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "world" [argument])


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -upDv world
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
cannot update anything

Expected Results:  
smooth update like usual

leviathon george # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.7.1 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:03 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p33
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_GB en"
MAKEOPTS="-j7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/qting-edge /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/jyujin /usr/local/portage/layman/qting-edge /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/jyujin"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 apache2 artworkextra aspell berkdb bzip2 cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dns dri dvd dvdr emerald esd extra extras ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk h323 hal htmlhandbook iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpg kdrive mad mmx mng modules mozbranding mp3 mpeg msn mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php pipechan png pppd python readline reflection samba scrobbler session sip spl sql sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tabs tcpd tiff truetype unicode unsupported vorbis wav webkit wma xcb xine xorg xulrunner xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-26 13:35:15 UTC]

ah I knew I forgot something.

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-26 23:04:16 UTC]

dependency lowered, thanks for reporting.