Bug 12203 – All sys-libs/glibc builds are masked.

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Birchinger (RETIRED) 2002-12-15 10:38:30 UTC]

All sys-libs/glibc builds are masked. This makes it impossible to emerge or
update any ebuild which requires virtual/glibc. For example:

!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/glibc" have been masked.
!!!    (dependency required by "app-editors/jed-0.99.16" [ebuild])

emerge -s glibc says:

*  sys-libs/glibc [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 2.3.1-r2
      Latest version installed: 2.2.5-r7

It seems not masked in package.mask:

 # grep "glibc" /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask | grep -v "^#"
=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1
=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r8

And the KEYWORDS are there:

# grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.5-r7.ebuild 
KEYWORDS="x86 ppc sparc alpha"

This all happend on 3 sparc machines over night. And no config was altered
during that day.

[Comment 1 Christian Birchinger (RETIRED) 2002-12-15 10:57:34 UTC]

It's because *>=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1 is in
/usr/portage/profiles/default-sparc64-1.4/packages
but glibc-2.3.1 is only available for "~sparc"

[Comment 2 Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) 2002-12-23 00:11:33 UTC]

glibc-2.3.1 is no longer ~

[Comment 3 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-03-06 07:11:57 UTC]

Problem fixed, closing.