Bug 77518 – etc-update (and others) wants to make strange change to /etc/portage/package.mask (xorg/xfree related)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tor Klingberg 2005-01-11 06:43:31 UTC]

When I run etc-update (or dispatch-conf) after emerging new packages it wants to change /etc/portage/package.mask as per
->=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7
+>=x11-base/xorg-x11-4.3.0-r7

It looks like some xfree->xorg upgrade script replaces 'xfree' with 'xorg', but in this case it is clearly not right.

I use xorg and I have xfree masked so I won't install it by mistake when some ebuild has broken dependencies.

I has happened twice. Once after a big upgrade, and once after upgrading bison,procps and ed.

Not a big deal, but I could be a sign of a larger problem.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:




#  emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers: 
sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1,sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -msse -pipe"
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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -msse -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-test.csbnet.se/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.se
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr
http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://ftp.gentoo-pt.org/pub/gentoo
http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/gentoo
http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.se/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X acl adns alsa anthy apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr
cjk crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif
gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6
java jpeg junit libwww live mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla
mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mysql ncurses network nls nodrm ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline real samba sdl slang speex spell
sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tex tiff truetype unicode
usb utf8 vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-01-11 07:01:40 UTC]

>I use xorg and I have xfree masked so I won't install it by mistake 

xfree is removed from portage. Drop the entry.