Bug 75878 – Manual masking does not work for revision pkgs

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

[Description George Kraev 2004-12-27 22:22:28 UTC]

When you tr to mask a package that is a revision of another instead of being just having a version number (ex. media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) the mask does not work. If you remove the revision number from /etc/portage/package.mask it mask both the version and it's revision. 

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-12-27 22:32:09 UTC]

you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to

that said, it works just fine over here with portage-2.0.51-r8:

root@vapier 1 ~ # tail -n 1 /etc/portage/package.mask
=media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1
root@vapier 1 ~ # emerge freetype -p

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9 [2.1.9-r1] 

root@vapier 0 ~ # rm /etc/portage/package.mask 
root@vapier 0 ~ # emerge freetype -p

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

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1  

[Comment 2 George Kraev 2004-12-27 22:39:24 UTC]

sorry for the bug it is not real. Seems like I had another rule in the unmask file which was canceling the one that I was trying to add.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-12-27 22:42:25 UTC]

the files can be tricky like that :)

glad you got it sorted