sys-apps/policycoreutils has been masked

Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

I am trying to emerge policycoreutils but it is giving me the masked by package.mask message. I added the package to package.keywords but it still will not emerge. What am I doing wrong?
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DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:32 am Post subject:

add to /etc/portage/package.unmask if you really want it. should be really broken or a security risk to be in package.mask.

ali3nx · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:35 am Post subject:

If your working with selinux it may be wise to ensure your using the appropriate hardened profiles or most of the userland selinux or sec related packages may be masked by your profile

Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21619

Please post the output of find /etc/portage -type f | while read file; do echo "${file}:"; nl "${file}"; echo; done; emerge --info ; emerge --pretend --verbose sys-apps/policycoreutils.

Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

Adding this with lynx...

livecd desktop # find /etc/portage -type f | while read file; do echo "${file}"; echo; done; emerge --info; emerge --pretend --verbose sys-apps/policycoreutils
/etc/portage/.keep_sys-apps_portage-0

/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-apps/busybox-1.12.2-r1

/etc/portage/package.keywords

/etc/portage/package.unmask

/etc/portage/package.mask

Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.40GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:35:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"

EDIT - trying to capture the first part of the text with find /etc/portage -type f | while read file; do echo "${file}"; echo; done; emerge --info; emerge --pretend --verbose sys-apps/policycoreutils > build.text 2>&1

It is not getting the first part of the output for some reason.
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Portage & Programming.
not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21619

You entered the shell construct incorrectly. You lost the call to nl, which would have shown us the contents of those files.

Your attempt to redirect failed because that shell construct runs three separate subshells. You only redirected the third of the three subshells. The output from the find construct and the emerge --info were not redirected. Wrap the whole thing in parentheses and put the redirection outside if you want to redirect the entire construct to one file. Also, you did not post the output of the pretend emerge.