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Bug 167591

Summary: sys-fs/raidtools is showing as masked ???
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alan Hourihane <alanh>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: gentoo.8eaf7cd8e5128d8191fe
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Alan Hourihane 2007-02-19 09:27:00 UTC
Seems as though sys-fs/raidtools has started showing as masked, but I don't know why. as it has the x86 keyword defined.

Calculating world dependencies -
!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
sys-fs/raidtools

... done!


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kevin Pyle 2007-02-19 17:42:35 UTC
It appears that this package has been deprecated.

~> emerge -p raidtools

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies /
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "raidtools" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-fs/raidtools-1.00.3-r6 (masked by: package.mask)
# Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (11 Feb 2007)
# Use mdadm; this package is dead.


A quick grep confirms this:
/usr/portage/profiles> find . -name package.mask | xargs grep -C3 -Hn sys-fs | less

./package.mask-94-
./package.mask-95-# Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (11 Feb 2007)
./package.mask-96-# Use mdadm; this package is dead.
./package.mask:97:sys-fs/raidtools
./package.mask-98-
./package.mask-99-# Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> (10 Feb 2007)
./package.mask-100-# Masking experimental ebuild.
Comment 2 Alan Hourihane 2007-02-19 17:56:58 UTC
Ah, thanks.