package.mask not working with package.keywords?

[MikeSummers]

I need net-libs/nodejs on my 64-bit system so in /etc/portage/package.keywords I add:

[aCOSwt]

[MikeSummers]

Thanks for the reply.

Is the Wiki version specifier page wrong then?

I ran this test and the results are still surprising

[MikeSummers]

It's a bug in the interaction between package.keywords and package.mask.

Dropping the package.mask specifier and going with

[albright]

I don't see the bug

in the first case, you masked 0.9.9 so it rebult
the newest unmasked version (0.9.3)

in the second case, you masked everything greater
than 0.9.9 (of which there are none) so it
wanted to upgrade

in the third case, you masked everything less than
0.9.9 so again it wanted to upgrade to 0.9.9

I don't see any bad behaviour here so if you
can take the time please explain the problem
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[Veldrin]

[MikeSummers]

Ah, sorry for being so dense about this, my thinking about "mask" was inverted... and the setting in keywords works as it's really an unmask.

Thanks.