Bug 377907 – sys-apps/portage: error messages for packages masked by not fulfilling @system requirements is insufficient

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Sebastian Luther (few) 2011-08-05 19:22:26 UTC]

Tried that only with portage-2.1.4.4, where I hit it while I tried to install portage-2.1.6.7. The selected profile was a 10.0 profile which has >=2.1.6.8 in @system. On IRC dwfreed said it would be still the same with recent portage.

The error message was "masked by: profile" and p.unmask didn't help with unmasking it. Took me some time to find the cause. The error should simply be improved (and maybe the handling of such cases too).

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-08-05 23:29:43 UTC]

I think we should remove "masked by: profile" support since it's not even part of PMS (see section 5.2.7 where is says atoms without * only appear for "legacy reasons"), and profiles can use package.mask if they need to mask something.

[Comment 2 Sebastian Luther (few) 2011-08-06 04:46:52 UTC]

If this issue the only one that hides behind "masked by profile", removing it sounds reasonable.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-08-09 05:42:11 UTC]

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=c5fbe4f306451b62c6f645d8d8679860e2d1a64e

I've also migrated the gentoo-x86 profiles to use package.mask:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog?view=log#rev1.5605
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog?view=log#rev1.5606
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog?view=log#rev1.5607

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2011-08-12 12:55:40 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.10.11 and 2.2.0_alpha51.