Bug 236312 – gnome-2.22 masked on ppc (/usr/portage/profiles/base/package.mask)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description cyrillic 2008-09-01 00:25:20 UTC]

For some reason this mask is only inflicted on my ~ppc machines, and not on my ~amd64 or ~x86 machines.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gnome
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
gnome-2.20 gets installed

Expected Results:  
gnome-2.22 gets installed (or latest version)

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-09-01 06:59:32 UTC]

this is not outdated, either ppc didn't stabilize all gnome 2.22 packages or this is simply and problem with the new layout of the profiles and is currently being worked on by leio.

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-01 10:52:23 UTC]

ppc is good to go for stable. I'm dealing with hppa and x86-fbsd issues before removing the global mask that will unleash gnome-2.22 to stable ppc as well

[Comment 3 cyrillic 2008-09-02 02:55:09 UTC]

This was not a major concern of mine.  I was just curious why this particular hardmask was in effect even though http://packages.gentoo.org shows the latest gnome packages as keyword masked.

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-02 23:23:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This was not a major concern of mine.  I was just curious why this particular
> hardmask was in effect even though http://packages.gentoo.org shows the latest
> gnome packages as keyword masked.

It seems packages.gentoo.org is only capable of considering with profiles/package.mask global entries, and not ones in base profiles, or probably negation of them in arch profiles. Because the negation was done for amd64/x86/etc, QA team insisted that global package.mask mustn't be used then and mvoed it to the base profiles (one of which is any profiles grandparent/grandgrandparent/etc) in profiles/base/package.mask, embedded/package.mask and selinux/package.mask (the whole selinux stuff has since been deleted in whole though, I believe for other reasons, probably deprecation).

[Comment 5 cyrillic 2008-10-13 20:01:02 UTC]

I think this Gnome 2.22 hardmask really is outdated now that Gnome 2.24 packages have started hitting the tree.

This is how I have been "fixing" the problem, every time I update :

# emerge --sync
# echo > /usr/portage/profiles/arch/powerpc/ppc32/package.mask
...

[Comment 6 Reilly Grant 2008-10-17 15:34:37 UTC]

If there aren't any problems with Gnome 2.22 on PPC, can this please be unmasked?  As it is, evince is broken on my system because I can't upgrade it to 2.22 to match the new poppler packages.

[Comment 7 Mart Raudsepp 2008-10-18 21:15:38 UTC]

GNOME-2.22 is now unmasked on PPC. A lot of it is in stable too as ppc architecture team member was running it already for a month or so and stabling things with ignoring the mask. The rest is going stable soon as well, while now lots of the in-tree GNOME-2.24 are visible to ~ppc too.