Bug 624864

Summary:	gnome-next overlay overwriting package.mask
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Massimo Burcheri <burcheri.massimo+bugs-gentoo>
Component:	Overlays	Assignee:	Cynede (RETIRED) <cynede>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major	CC:	cook60020tmp, josef64, jstein
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624936
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Massimo Burcheri 2017-07-13 11:34:24 UTC

https://github.com/Heather/gentoo-gnome/blob/master/profiles/package.unmask

This file is defining its own unmasks for the repo.
This is the 1st issue of this ticket. Isn't that a bad style having repos unmasking or accepting their own elements?

The 2nd issue of this ticket is that I wondered that any
/etc/portage/package.mask/*
with */*::gnome-next is just ignored. I set this line for every inoccifial overlay for not updating implicitly version packages from the overlay. This seems more like a portage bug, that overlay profiles have precedence over /etc/portage/ .
If so I would split this 2nd issue into a separate bug report.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Massimo Burcheri 2017-07-14 05:44:57 UTC

2nd issue about "Overlays package.unmask overwriting local package.mask" separated to bug 624936.

Comment 2 Cynede (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-11-01 13:25:35 UTC

Hello

> Isn't that a bad style having repos unmasking or accepting their own elements?

Questionable, in my opinion masking new packages in main tree is bad style.
I suggest to open discussions about that and another resources on this github repository: https://github.com/Heather/gentoo-gnome

Comment 3 Massimo Burcheri 2017-11-01 18:45:22 UTC

Forwarded upstream: https://github.com/Heather/gentoo-gnome/issues/205