Bug 24554 – portage does not parse or handle the package.mask file in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Rutger Swarts 2003-07-15 17:12:18 UTC]

The profiles/package.mask file in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY appears to be ignored. I want to use 
this to mask apache 2. AxKit does not work with apache-2, and mod_php gets into trouble when 
using apache 1 while apache 2 is also present (even tough I use USE="-apache2"). However, 
this apparently does not work... at the moment I am solving this by echoing 
">=net-www/apache-2" into /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask after each sync. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
# grep ^PORTDIR_OVERLAY /etc/make.conf 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage 
# echo ">=net-www/apache-2" > /usr/local/portage 
# emerge -up apache 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
[ebuild    U ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r4] 
 
Actual Results:  
portage still tries to merge apache 2.xyz: 
 
# emerge -up apache 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
[ebuild    U ] net-www/apache-2.0.47 [1.3.27-r4] 
 

Expected Results:  
it should have left apache alone: 
 
# emerge -up apache 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
 
#  

 
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-xfs-r3 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg 
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang 
readline arts tetex aalib svga tcltk java mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd 
imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl cdr acpi artswrappersuid cjk curl flash gd imap jikes lcms 
maildir mng moznocompose moznoirc moznomail oav odbc pic samba tiff vim-with-x wmf xface 
xfs xinerama xml xosd -gnome" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -pipe -ffast-math" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -pipe -ffast-math" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-07-15 17:17:54 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5622 ***