Using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask the following: >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20081109 >app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20081109 =app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20091004_rc1 I have had to re-install the older libraries three times since this issue began, and always because I'm just doing a daily sync/update. This is BEYOND irritating. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. masked files keep reinstalling themselves. 2. 3. Expected Results: I expect that packages masked in /etc/portage/package.mask will be repeatedly reemerged, when such operation is clearly NOT desired. core-too ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc44 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-bfs300 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-bfs300-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6550_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:30:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/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/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/seeds/storage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups dbus dlloader dri drm dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode fam ffmpeg fftw filter flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glib gpm gsl gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde kdgraphics ladspa lame ldap libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdcre pdf pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang slp sndfile spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg swat sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode v4l v4l2 vhosts vorbis wxwindows x264 xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1712" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 206400 [details] /etc/portage/package.mask
I do not know which version of portage where this error begins. All I do know is that it is the same with portage-2.2_rc43 and portage-2.2_rc44. The most curious thing is that none of the other listed packages are attempting to emerge. Only the first listed apps are having this issue...the ones with really long names.
Please try: ">=" instead of just ">"
If it were that easy, I'd have not wasted the time writing a bug report.
So what is in your package.unmask?
(In reply to comment #5) > So what is in your package.unmask? > Good question...and you found the issue. >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_pre >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl-20081109 >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20081109 I did not make those changes. Until just now, I thought the only thing I had in that file was >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_pre. How did that happen? I'm confused, but the machine is fixed. Thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind for the next issue I have. You can call this one fixed.
