Bug 269699

Summary:	equery doesn't tell if package is hard masked
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ralph Hartley <hartley>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	237964

Description Ralph Hartley 2009-05-13 13:46:02 UTC

There is no way to tell from the output of "equery list" if the package is hard masked or just keyworded.

The man page says there is:

the possible masks [...] (~ by keyword, - by arch or M hard masked)

which is the desired behaviour, but actually M means that it is masked for any reason. See the discussion on Bug #134440. It is useful to know which packages can be emerged, but when they can't the next thing you need is to know why.

Either the code needs to be changed to match the documentation (preferred) or the documentation needs to be changed to match the code.

Comment 1 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-07 19:22:39 UTC

Released in gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc8