Bug 431078

Summary:	Please implement stable use masking
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pms
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/eapi-5
Whiteboard:	in-eapi-5
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174380, 414817, 431026

Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2012-08-12 12:54:44 UTC

Now opening the "formal bug", after we've discussed this a few times...

Please add portage support in EAPI=5 profile directories for the files
use.stable.mask,
use.stable.force,
package.use.stable.mask,
package.use.stable.force

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c492ae43ad7c70cef6aa8ac34911adf.xml
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commitdiff;h=2921080e5b4f67ae55d2f80f8fea2b8d47ced831

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-08-25 04:15:10 UTC

This is implemented now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=ebf5d1a64a4a40a0efeba3b038122eef375ace94

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-08-26 23:14:07 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.12 and 2.2.0_alpha123.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-08-30 09:42:55 UTC

Looks like we don't have a separate PMS bug for this feature, so CCing pms-bugs to this one.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-09-23 06:42:33 UTC

PMS commit:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=3023cd7a32124e6fa5c11d0d1440fd78f73e8f94