Bug 74213

Summary:	portage doesn't respect blocks in /etc/portage/package.mask, when installing with -K option
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED) <mkay>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-12 10:12:05 UTC

adding -K to emerge <something> couses that /etc/portage/package.mask isn't respected.
here's example with ooodi:

<root@CogES>/etc/portage: grep oodi /etc/portage/package.mask
=app-office/ooodi-0.68
<root@CogES>/etc/portage: emerge -pK ooodi

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[binary     U ] app-office/ooodi-0.68 [0.55]

hovewer it works fine, with -k instead of -K:

<root@CogES>/etc/portage: emerge -pk ooodi

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[binary   R   ] app-office/ooodi-0.55

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-10 18:12:03 UTC

It's not supposed to know about the portage tree as you told it not to use it.

Not a bug. Intentional, explicit design choice.

The matter of nice tools to help you manage the changing system is
something that needs work.