Bug 70165 – can't unmask packages

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aben Siatris 2004-11-05 07:12:40 UTC]

when i write package name into /etc/portage/package.unmask, emerge ignore it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
$emerge -pv gdb
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/gdb-6.0
add into /etc/portage/package.unmask this line:
=sys-devel/gdb-6.2.1

$emerge -pv gdb
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/gdb-6.0



$emerge -pv baghira
[ebuild     UD] x11-themes/baghira-0.4 [0.5h-r1]
add into /etc/portage/package.unmask this line:
>=x11-themes/baghira-0.4

$emerge -pv baghira
[ebuild     UD] x11-themes/baghira-0.4 [0.5h-r1]


Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-rc4-love1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-rc4-love1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest distlocks maketest prelink sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247
.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acl alsa apache2 apm arts avantgo avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth
bootsplash cdr chroot crypt cups curl dba debug directfb divix4linux divx4linux
doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif f77 fam fastcgi fax fbcon flac flash
foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamergtk gtk2 iconv icq imagemagick imap
imlib innodb ioap java javascript jpeg junit kde lcd ldap libg++ libwww mad
maildir mbox mikmod mime mmxmmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql mythtv nas ncurses
network nls nptl nvidia oci8 odbc oggvorbis openal opengl pam pda pdflib perl
png postgres python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl session slang spell
sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd threads tiff timidity truetype unicode usb v4l
v4l2 wifi x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_de linguas_ru linguas_sk
linguas_cz linguas_cs linguas_en"

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-11-05 14:21:10 UTC]

portage.unmask is for packages known to be definitely broken, having unfixed security issues, etc. Usually you want to have not a single package listed in portage.unmask. Use portage.keywords instead. Please read the documentation, e.g. `man portage`.