I recently synced portage, new versions were out for both madwifi-driver and madwifi-tools, 0.1_pre20051031. I built both of these, then synced again the next day and saw that madwifi-tools needed to be downgraded. I thought it odd that only the tools were rolled back, but updated it anyway. I then tried my wireless card later that evening, and discovered that the new driver didn't show up in /proc/net/wireless, so wanted to step back to the recent 20051004 ebuild I made myself and maintain in a personal overlay. I added a line to /etc/portage/package.mask, but the package simply wouldn't mask. I thought it was a typo and pasted the line in, still no luck. On a hunch I checked the recent /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask and saw that it was supposed to have already been masked in there with the tools. Something rather odd is going on. Eix believes the package should be masked, so it appears it's only portage that hasn't got the idea. A quick fix would be to pull the ebuilds from the repository, but this definitely suggests a bug in portage's mask reading system. I have no idea whereabouts or why (it's not overly long pre values since the tools were successfully masked off, I can only think it's a total length problem, but that's a guess). Anyway, any ideas or solutions would be welcome... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Sync up portage 2. Attempt to emerge madwifi-driver 3. Actual Results: Version 0.1_pre20051031 attempts to install even though it should be masked. Expected Results: The next lowest version (in my case a personal ebuild from my overlay) should attempt to install. Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4-vanilla, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/personal" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X aalib acl acpi adns alsa animation audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth boundschecking browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvb dvd eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gnome gnutls gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened idn imagemagick ipv6 java john jpeg junit lcms ldap libg++ libwww lua mad madwifi mailwrapper mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mscash mssql mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntlm ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdflib pic pie plot png postgres pylibpcap python quicktime readline recode samba sasl sdl slang slp smux snmp sox spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Please, post the output of 'grep madwifi /etc/portage/package*
Ok, now I feel very, very stupid. Thanks very much, sure enough I had it in my package.unmask as just a global unmask rather than a specific version unmask. And unmasking takes precidence over masking, even in /etc/portage. Sorry to waste your time like that...
