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longint
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 9:31 pm Post subject: emerging masked packages |
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How do i emerge masked packages?
How do i emerge beta-versions?
How do i know about ebuilds for beta-versions (which will not be shown while doing an emerge -s)?
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Vanquirius
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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You can see masked packages by nano'ing into the package.mask list.
| Code: | | nano -w /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask |
In order to emerge a masked package, all you have to do is to remove them from the package.mask file.
Usually it is safe to use a masked package when its been masked for test purposes, such as is the case w/kde-3.1beta.
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Uranus
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| won't a simple emerge /usr/portage/path/to/masked/package.ebuild do the trick? |
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masseya
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| Uranus wrote: | | won't a simple emerge /usr/portage/path/to/masked/package.ebuild do the trick? |
Yes, when you give portage a full path to a *.ebuild file it doesn't check the package.mask file, so this would also work. However, I'm not sure how portage would handle an emerge -u world after that. It could try and replace the masked version with the best non-masked version. It could also just ignore updates for that package because it's masked. I suppose you could mask something you already have on your system and then do an emerge -pu world to see what would happen, but I'm feeling lazy. 
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Tristam29 wrote: | | However, I'm not sure how portage would handle an emerge -u world after that. It could try and replace the masked version with the best non-masked version. |
That seems a likely outcome, because the world file does not contain version information.
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klette
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Why are some packages masked anyway?
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Genone
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| The reasons are stated in packages.mask, for most packages the reasons are bugs or instability. |
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