287635 – fetching masked packages

Bug 287635 - fetching masked packages

Summary: fetching masked packages

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2009-10-04 05:55 UTC by Alexander Potashev
Modified:	2009-10-04 19:11 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Potashev 2009-10-04 05:55:23 UTC

emerge doesn't allow to run "emerge --fetchonly <package>" when the package is masked, but I don't see any reasons to not allow that.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-04 18:01:17 UTC

If the package is masked, how does it know which version to fetch?

Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2009-10-04 19:11:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> If the package is masked, how does it know which version to fetch?
> 

Sorry for bothering people, "emerge -Of =app-office/kexi-1.6.3_p20090204" worked.
(I have masked =x11-libs/qt-3*, so kexi can't be installed)

Thank you for the question to the point, it helped a lot ;)