726832 – sys-apps/portage: add getmaskingreason support to show comments from /etc/portage/package.mask

Bug 726832 - sys-apps/portage: add getmaskingreason support to show comments from /etc/portage/package.mask

Summary: sys-apps/portage: add getmaskingreason support to show comments from /etc/por...

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2020-06-02 19:32 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2020-06-14 20:22 UTC (History)
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-06-02 19:32:44 UTC

Currently, getmaskingreason only searches profile package.mask files. It can be extended to also search /etc/portage/package.mask.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-06-14 20:22:07 UTC

Actually, it already searchs USER_CONFIG_PATH. It was updated to prioritize messages from USER_CONFIG_PATH in this commit:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=cc3ca52718e0f15a2d0a3f3360977e3b33041db9