On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 04:08 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 04:01, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 03:48 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 January 2007 03:36, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > > > I've added > > > > `>net-im/gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3' to /etc/portage/package.mask, but nothing > > > > changes. `emerge gaim' still wishes to emerge gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3, and > > > > `emerge -Duva world' fails since it cannot build a depgraph including > > > > gaim-2.0.0_beta5-r3. > > > > > > You expect >-r3 to mask -r3? Clearly to mask -r3 you need >=..-r3 or > > > >..-r2. > > > > Sorry, I quoted that wrong. I've tried both >-r2, >=-r3 and =-r3. > > Allright, you're right. package.unmask overrides package.mask. Therefore > you'll have to unmask <-r3.
Aha! There was the problem. I had completely forgotten that I had had to p.unmask previously, since it was masked in the tree. > And don't need the mask since it's already masked > in the tree. :) Actually, it seems it isn't any longer, so I could just remove the entry from p.unmask and it worked. Thanks! Fredrik Tolf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
