Sync tries to mask xorg, why?

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Milez · Post by **Milez** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:16 pm

I just ran an emerge sync, and then noticed that the new ._cfg file meant to replace /etc/portage/package.mask was set to mask xorg. Why is this the case when I thought that it was xfree that was deprecated from Gentoo?

sakus · Post by **sakus** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:05 pm

I was wondering about the same thing. I read somewhere else on this forum that xfree was removed from portage yesterday, so maybe someone just messed up and typed xorg-x11 instead of xfree..?

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:16 pm

Nothing in the /etc/portage directory is ever touched by portage. At least, it's not supposed to be.

PS: 1000th post.

NightMonkey · Post by **NightMonkey** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:42 pm

Roguelazer wrote:Nothing in the /etc/portage directory is ever touched by portage. At least, it's not supposed to be.

PS: 1000th post.

Well, it's not true right now. I've got 4 systems which, with every sync, prompt for an etc-update for /etc/portage/package.mask, and here's what it does:

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Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
..p...
 * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating.
 * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.

homeserver-02 root # etc-update
Scanning Configuration files...
The following is the list of files which need updating, each
configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files.
1) /etc/portage/package.mask
/etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.mask
Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number.
              (don't use -3 or -5 if you're unsure what to do)
              (-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files)
                           (-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'): 1

Showing differences between /etc/portage/package.mask and /etc/portage/._cfg0000
_package.mask
--- /etc/portage/package.mask   2004-08-09 10:22:23.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.mask 2005-01-05 15:35:14.691501157 -0800
@@ -1 +1 @@
-x11-base/xfree
+x11-base/xorg-x11

1) Replace original with update
2) Delete update, keeping original as is
3) Interactively merge original with update
4) Show differences again
Please select from the menu above (-1 to ignore this update):

Annoying, but not an emergency. But I see how it could trip up some users.

metalifloyd · Post by **metalifloyd** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:30 am

Did the same thing for me. I simply deleted the update.

Berra · Post by **Berra** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:47 pm

I thing someone in the gentoo crew is evil and hates xorg

PapaSMURFFS · Post by **PapaSMURFFS** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:18 pm

As far as I know /etc/portage is suppost to only contain user-defined files, global masking happens in /usr/portage/profile afaik.

I imagine its a mistake -- either way I'd refuse to update that file.

lazyleopard · Post by **lazyleopard** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:08 am

Hmmm...

I wonder whether this is fallout following the total removal of xfree? Maybe someone made the assumption that if xfree was masked then xorg should now be masked, as xorg replaced xfree, and anone who had xfree masked didn't want X11 at all....

If that's the reasoning, then anyone who had xfree masked so that they could build xorg is going to get nagged...

Maybe the thing to do is to remove the xfree line now that xfree is no longer present anyway.

PT_LAmb · Post by **PT_LAmb** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:25 pm

It seems that it happens because x11-base/xfree is masked. So portage (or something) tries to substitute that with x11-base/xorg-x11.

I still don't know why it does, it's trully puzzling. Some input from the dev team would be very much welcome.

A solution is to comment or erase that line from the file.

Ricardo

PapaSMURFFS · Post by **PapaSMURFFS** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:44 pm

Removed, but syncing is still trying to insert a mask for xorg. *shrugs* its no biggie, I'll just keep the old file -- would still like to know why though.

EDIT:
Apparently its not anymore -- I thought I synced after I got rid of the xfree line and it was still trying to happen, but I guess not. My bad

meowsqueak · Post by **meowsqueak** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:51 am

This just happened to me too - hadn't sync'd since pre-Christmas until now. I simply deleted the new xorg line that appeared during dispatch-conf and we'll see what happens...

EDIT: seems to be ok now. With that line intact, it blocks on xorg as masked.

nixchecker · Post by **nixchecker** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:32 pm

When xfree got removed an update entry was added that moves xfree to xorg-x11 (see in file /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005 the entry "move x11-base/xfree x11-base/xorg-x11"). This tries to do the move also in your files in /etc/portage.

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