David Morgan schreef: > On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: >>Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say >>much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is >>associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag >>would call is unavailable). > > > Maybe, but that's not the way portage works these things out > Well, it looks like you're at least partially right-- I went back to the source:
> # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/use.mask,v 1.14 > 2005/05/20 11:52:10 lu_zero Exp $ > > # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default > # profile for any architecture. This works, for example, if a non-default > # profile (such as the selinux profiles) have a USE flag associated with > # them. > > uclibc > > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > aqua > > # amd64 only: > emul-linux-x86 > > # sparc only: > ultra1 > > # x86 only > divx4linux > win32codecs > kqemu > # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/use.mask,v 1.8 > 2005/05/21 01:13:41 lu_zero Exp $ > > # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default > # x86 profile. This works, for example, if another architecture's > # profile have a USE flag associated with (such as altivec, mmx, etc). > > # Unmask x86 instruction sets > -mmx > -mmx2 > -mmxext > -sse > -sse2 > -3dnow > -3dnowext > -win32codecs Plus, these files are where the masks are, the use.mask for the uclibc profile only contains > pam > nls > nptl > nis > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > aqua > > # this seems to pull in pre compiled glibc libs. > divx4linux > > emul-linux-x86 > > > and nothing else (and the other folders in the profile folder don't contain a use.mask). Oh, wait a minute, I think I found it: > # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/use.mask,v 1.1 2005/05/08 > 23:37:08 pebenito Exp $ > > -selinux > > # disallow posix acl since this is SELinux > acl > > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > aqua > > # must use a specific SELinux profile that unmasks this > uclibc > > > > # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > # $Header: > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/2005.1/x86-uclibc/use.mask,v 1.3 > 2005/05/14 20:53:38 pebenito Exp $ > > -uclibc > > -win32codecs > > # PPC instructions > altivec > > nls > But from this, it looks like there is no way to unmask the USE flags in question-- "simply NOT allowed" seems pretty definitive, although a careful reading of man portage might reveal a loophole. But I doubt it.. and in fact, it does not seem to have any such, from the files list in man portage: > SYNOPSIS > /etc/ > make.globals > make.conf(5) > > /etc/make.profile/ > deprecated > make.defaults > packages > packages.build > package.provided > parent > use.defaults > use.mask > virtuals > > /etc/portage/ > bashrc > package.mask > package.unmask > package.keywords > package.use > mirrors > categories > > /etc/portage/profile/ > site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ > > /usr/portage/profiles/ > arch.list > categories > info_pkgs > info_vars > package.mask > profiles.desc > thirdpartymirrors > use.desc > use.local.desc > use.mask > > /var/lib/portage/ > world > Don't see anything like a use.unmask file. What I would now be interested in, if this concerned me, is why this particular USE flag is "simply NOT allowed" under this extremely specialized profile, but I have no idea where I would find that information (except maybe b.g.o, or the gentoo docs related to either uclibc, hardened/selinux, masked packages, or all of the above). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
