34181 – emerge 2.0.49-r15 doesn't honor /etc/portage/package.unmask

Bug 34181 - emerge 2.0.49-r15 doesn't honor /etc/portage/package.unmask

Summary: emerge 2.0.49-r15 doesn't honor /etc/portage/package.unmask

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-11-23 06:20 UTC by Anno v. Heimburg
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description Anno v. Heimburg 2003-11-23 06:20:57 UTC

Hi!

I need an unstable version of ALSA. Problem: Whenever updating something that depends on ALSA, emerge'll try to downgrade from 0.9.7 to 0.9.2 (the latest stable version). package.unmask doesn't seem to work, none of the entries below work:

media-libs/alsa-lib
=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7
<=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7
=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7*

I asked this question in the newsgroup, and getting package.unmask to work seems to be a common problem. TIA,

Anno

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-23 07:38:17 UTC

alsa-driver is not masked in package.mask, you want package.keywords (bug 13616) which is not in portage yet.