Bug 77278

Summary:	Support for multiple maskes for same $CATEGORY/$PN in packages files
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Lance Albertson (RETIRED) <ramereth>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	baz, carlo, jaervosz
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 14:39:42 UTC

Currently, the way portage works with the packages file in the profile is that you can't have more than one locked package. For example:

=sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4
=sys-libs/db-1.85-r1

That doesn't appear to work. I haven't actually tried this myself, but baz and jaervosz has. I'm going to try and test this myself in the next couple of days.

It would be nice to have this feature in order to satisfy a locked profile which GLEP19 is trying to use for a stable tree. So far, db seems to be the only package that needs to have two slottable packages for the base profile we're making. 

Please take a look at our profile page [1] if you want a make exact senario.

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~baz/glep19-profile/

Thanks!

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 14:42:49 UTC

I hate the packages file ...

Comment 2 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-10 06:49:03 UTC

Why do you hate the packages file?

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-10 06:58:13 UTC

Profiles now support package.mask. This should really be used instead of the packages' "masking" method. The support isn't well known yet as there is no policy on what should be masked where.