Bug 150515 – sys-apps/portage-2.1.2_pre2-r6 reporting non-existant package.mask ?

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2006-10-08 14:15:30 UTC]

magratea maven-bin # emerge -pv =maven-bin-2.0.4

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=maven-bin-2.0.4" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-java/maven-bin-2.0.4 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

magratea maven-bin # grep maven /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
magratea maven-bin #



magratea maven-bin # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:50:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/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/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts asf bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 bzlib c++ cairo cdio cjk cli cpudetection crypt ctype cups curl dba dbus divx dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd expat fam fbcon fbdev firefox flac font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gif gmedia gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg junit kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos kernel_linux ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de logitech-mouse mad mhash mikmod mime mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nis nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pear perl php pic pie png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sasl sdl session speedo spell spl sqlite sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wmp xine xml xml2 xorg xscreensaver xsl xslt xv zeroconf zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-08 14:27:37 UTC]

Reopen with 'grep -Rni maven-bin /etc/portage' output.

[Comment 2 f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2006-10-08 16:47:35 UTC]

magratea maven-bin # grep -Rni maven-bin /etc/portage
/etc/portage/package.mask:1:>dev-java/maven-bin-2

Ok, so this package was intentionally masked by myself - shame on me for forgetting this. The portage message could have been a bit more verbose about the source of that masking.

But why in the world I had to remove maven-bin-2.0.2 from my system today?
(which was all of a sudden reported to be masked after portage update)
It shouldn't even have been installed - as my package.mask says.
Was support for /etc/portage/package.mask broken in any recent portage version?

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-08 23:24:49 UTC]

User error, closing.

[Comment 4 f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2006-10-09 07:03:36 UTC]

Thanks alot for ignoring my question.