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Bug 44749 - /etc/portage/package.unmask is ignored
Summary: /etc/portage/package.unmask is ignored
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Portage team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-03-15 09:06 UTC by Dave Andruczyk
Modified: 2004-03-15 22:25 UTC (History)
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Description Dave Andruczyk 2004-03-15 09:06:32 UTC
According to the site docs, /etc/portage/package.unmask can be used to unmask packages on a selective basis.

For me this does NOT work,  According to some old bugreports, the /etc/portage/package.unmask was ONLY to unmask pacakges listed in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask    WHY???

If I want to run the latest and greatest ALSA(1.0.3b) instead of the ancient 0.9.8 that is unmasked I now have the INDIVIDUALLY emerge packages after every emerge sync as emerge world ALWAYS tries to downgrade alsa to the ancient release.

I DO NOT want to run ALL unstable versions ( by setting ARCH to ~x86), which is why /etc/portage/profiles.unmask is a GOOD IDEA if it applies to ALL packages, NOT the contents of /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. add entries into /etc/portage/package.unmask allowing ALSA
2.emerge world -uDp
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge tries to unmerge ALSA,  now if I want to emerge world I either have to 
A. allow it to downgrade all of my ALSA drivers/tools and install the rest of 
the new packages  
	OR 
B. manually install all of the newly listed updates (skipping the ALSA ones) 
 
can NOT use emerge world -uUDp, as that reports a blocking failure with 
regards to ALSA 
 emerge world -uUDp 
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating world dependencies \ 
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.3" have been 
masked. 
!!! possible candidates are: 
- media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.3b-r1 (masked by: ~keyword) 
- media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.3b (masked by: ~keyword) 
!!!    (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.3" [ebuild]) 
 
!!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.3 
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. 
 
!!! Depgraph creation failed. 
 

Expected Results:  
/etc/portage/package.unmask should allow selective unmasking of ANY PACKAGE in 
the ENTIRE portage tree, allowing testers to test various packages at a time 
without unleasing a rush of potential problems by setting ARCH to ~x86(or 
~ppc,~sparc,~alpha,~mips..) which allows all "developmental" versions to 
install on the next emerge world --update  
 

emerge info   
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.25 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 
/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/ 
config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ 
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/g 
entoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd dvdr encode esd 
foo 
maticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad 
m 
ikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib 
p 
erl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd 
tru 
etype x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-15 22:25:14 UTC
There is package.unmask and package.keywords, one applies to package.mask the other to KEYWORDS (you can read more about them in `man portage`).