Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> I just ran a system update and got the following warning... >> >> !!! The following installed packages are masked: >> - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >> # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> (2017-10-18) >> # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 >> # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with >> # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in >> # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall. >> >> 1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked? >> >> 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but... >> >> [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5 >> * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5: >> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake) >> net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*) >> >> ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate >> specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in >> /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3 >> >> I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed. >> > > There's a couple threads on -dev about masking python 2 stuff. It > caused quite a bit of controversy. I don't know if this is related or > not but could it be that some of the packages depend on python 2 OR you > have something set to python 2 only for some reason? > > If you can't find any other reason for this, you may want to check into > those threads to see if it is related. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Sorry. I meant to reply to your other thread. When reading previous, apply it to that thread instead of this one. Sorry. Dale :-) :-)
