Today i got : n22 /etc/portage # emerge --newuse --update --ask --verbose --deep --tree world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: x11-misc/xlockmore ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
That is not any error, it's a warning that you have package.masked version installed without appropriate entry in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
Actually this is a problem. The only stable version of x11-misc/xlockmore which was in the portage tree was removed, and all other versions are masked. The changelog entry does not give an additional information about why the stable version was removed, nor are there any bug reports indicating that there was a problem with it. It seems as though the developer just got tired of having it around, now I have to move my X installation to the unstable branch to use it?? # ChangeLog for x11-misc/xlockmore # Copyright 2002-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xlockmore/ChangeLog,v 1.40 2006/02/11 09:58:59 tove Exp $ 11 Feb 2006; Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael@gentoo.org> -xlockmore-5.17-r1.ebuild: Remove old version. Port 5.19 to modular X.
>That is not any error, it's a warning that you have package.masked version >installed without appropriate entry in /etc/portage/package.unmask. Sorry, but you're wrong, not the message is the problem, see comment https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122450#c2 - so I reopen the bug n22 ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask # packages.mask # >=dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 #=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10-r2 =sys-kernel/usermode-sources-2.6.14 =sys-kernel/usermode-sources-2.6.14-r1 n22 ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.umask cat: /etc/portage/package.umask: No such file or directory
In reply to comment #3) > Sorry, but you're wrong, not the message is the problem, see comment > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122450#c2 - so I reopen the bug I'm not as much wrong as the original description of the problem sucks...
Sorry, my mistake, shouldn't be removed yet. Should hit mirrors soon.
(In reply to comment #2) > It seems as though the developer just got tired of having it around, now I have > to move my X installation to the unstable branch to use it?? Please, please... I'm just a human too, I make mistakes sometimes as everybody.
I apologize... I didn't mean to come off so strongly, I for one really appreciate all the work the developers do. Thanks and keep up the great work!
