Hi, all, A recent update demanded that I rebuild webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200. Unfortunately I cannot get this package to rebuild.
In my experience, this particular version of webkit-gtk has always been a very fragile build. I've put way too much time into wrestling with it and I'd like to get rid of it. There's a newer version: webkit-gtk-2.18.6, which builds with no problems. The only package on my system that needs webkit-gtk is gnucash. All of the stable ebuilds for gnucash contain this line >=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2 And all of the versions of webkit-gtk in portage satisfy this condition. So, I ought to be able to use webkit-2.18.6, right? But, I cannot get portage to agree to use webkit-2.18.6. It insists that this package is masked.. And I cannot figure out how or why it is masked. Nothing masks it in /etc/portage. It's keyworded amd64, which is what I'm running. I have followed through all the mask/unmask files in my profile (default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop (stable)) and have found webkit-gtk mentioned precisely twice: in /usr/portage/profiles/arch/base/package.use.mask and /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.mask. The comments in these files suggest that the use flag "jit" is masked in general, but allowed in amd64. So there's nothing I know to look for that seems to prevent any available version of webkit-gtk from being considered. Yet if I mask off webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 in /etc/portage/package.mask and attempt to build gnucash, I get his error message: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.2:2" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) And that's on a system that contains webkit-gtk-2.18.6. Can anyone explain to me why portage won't use webkit-gtk-2.18.6 to satisfy gnucash's needs? Thanks, John Blinka
