Bug 34181

Summary:	emerge 2.0.49-r15 doesn't honor /etc/portage/package.unmask
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Anno v. Heimburg <anno>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Anno v. Heimburg 2003-11-23 06:20:57 UTC

Hi!

I need an unstable version of ALSA. Problem: Whenever updating something that depends on ALSA, emerge'll try to downgrade from 0.9.7 to 0.9.2 (the latest stable version). package.unmask doesn't seem to work, none of the entries below work:

media-libs/alsa-lib
=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7
<=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7
=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.7*

I asked this question in the newsgroup, and getting package.unmask to work seems to be a common problem. TIA,

Anno

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-23 07:38:17 UTC

alsa-driver is not masked in package.mask, you want package.keywords (bug 13616) which is not in portage yet.