Bug 292752

Summary:	emerge should warn that an installed package became license masked
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) <caster>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, tetromino
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-11 06:50:31 UTC

Currently people are confused in bug 292639 and such, when a package they installed becomes masked by license. Portage seems to then ignore such package when updating world, and pull in a different alternative. And there's no indication AFAIK (unless the masked package is itself in world file) of why is that.

This should go to 2.1 as well.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-11-15 23:43:09 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 288083 ***