16745 – `emerge -f` should not be affected by masking

Bug 16745 - `emerge -f` should not be affected by masking

Summary: `emerge -f` should not be affected by masking

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-03-03 10:28 UTC by SpanKY
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-03-03 10:28:52 UTC

well, to a point ...

if there is a visible ebuild, then it should be fetched ...
however, if there are no visible ebuilds because they are all masked (either
because the pkg is not for your arch or it's in package.mask), then it should
attempt *some* form of fetching

yes/no/maybe so ?
(i like to fetch ppc on my server to cache for my child machines)

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-16 07:20:36 UTC

Ehm, it doesn't make much sense to me that -f should give different results
than normal emerge. You could use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc -x86" emerge -f to
fetch the versions of a package that are marked as stable on ppc.

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-12 21:08:23 UTC

No counter argument -> closing