Bug 746353

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: 'masked by: package.mask' prints wrong context (?)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2020-10-03 17:51:51 UTC

emerge seems to mishandle comments in package.mask when printing package.mask context.  In my case, it prints only 3 irrelevant comments found in middle of the file instead of the actual package entry found at the end.


# emerge -1v pandoc

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-haskell/syb-0.1:=[profile?]" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-haskell/syb-0.7.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/etc/portage/package.mask/local.conf:
#=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.0
#dev-python/pytest-cov
#=media-libs/mesa-19.1.0_rc2


(dependency required by "app-text/pandoc-2.9.2.1::gentoo" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "pandoc" [argument])
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.