Bug 287635

Summary:	fetching masked packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Potashev 2009-10-04 05:55:23 UTC

emerge doesn't allow to run "emerge --fetchonly <package>" when the package is masked, but I don't see any reasons to not allow that.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-04 18:01:17 UTC

If the package is masked, how does it know which version to fetch?

Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2009-10-04 19:11:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> If the package is masked, how does it know which version to fetch?
> 

Sorry for bothering people, "emerge -Of =app-office/kexi-1.6.3_p20090204" worked.
(I have masked =x11-libs/qt-3*, so kexi can't be installed)

Thank you for the question to the point, it helped a lot ;)