On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:39:42 -0400, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 October 2018 8:34:39 AM AEDT Jack wrote: > > On 2018.10.06 16:29, John Covici wrote: > > > On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:55:53 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > >>> So, I have not been able to figure this out, it did not abort and > > >>> wants to install the masked package, so hear is the whole output > > >>> --- thanks for all your help. > > >> > > >> What is the actual package.mask set to? Does the same mask cover > > >> both the installed and upgraded version of gtk+? It seems odd to me > > >> that emerge would even offer the option to continue if a package was > > >> masked. You might want to check with the portage team. > > > > > > The line in my /etc/portage/package.mask says > > > x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > > > For a specific version, you probably want that to be > > =x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > or > > > > >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.22.30 > > > > although the # in > > [ebuild U #] x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.1:3::mv [3.22.30:3::gentoo] > > seems to show it knows it is listed in package.mask. > > > Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you > might want to try: > > --autounmask-keep-masks y > > I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked.
Thanks for the tip, I never heard of that one. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com