I unmasked and emerged xorg-x11-6.7.99.902 (and built package) and had some difficulty. Removed from package.unmask, and used `emerge xorg-x11 -B` to build package for xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 (no version supplied from command line, package was built for correct version -- current version available with ~x86 keyword). However, `emerge -Kp xorg-x11` shows xorg-x11-6.7.99.902 will be unpacked (Have packages for both built). Removing the 6.7.99.902 package file corrects this issue. It just appears that the newest matching package is selected without checking against the profile's package.mask. I'm unsure if it checks the ebuild for it's information as the ebuild itself states the same keyword as my system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unmask new ebuild and build package 2. Remask ebuild 3. emerge -Kp packagename Actual Results: masked package version slated for install Expected Results: install of older package, or "no package" error. Portage 2.0.50-r10 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-ck3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-ck3 i686 Unknown CPU Typ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi aim alsa apm avi berkdb bindist bonobo cdinstall cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dga divx4linux dvd encode esd fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msn ncurses nls no_wxgtk1 nowin nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb v4l wxwindows x86 xml2 xosd xrandr xv yahoo zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26314 ***
Also take a look at bug 61839. With the patch in that bug, emerge -k will work as expected.
