package.unmask + vim

[ThomasJ02]

Hello!

I'm trying to emerge gvim 7.0, which is hard masked. I added the following lines to /etc/portage/package.unmask:

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#cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
=app-editors/vim-core-7*
=app-editors/vim-7*
=app-editors/gvim-7*

However, when I try to emerge gvim after doing this, I still get version 6.x:

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# emerge -av gvim

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies  ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] app-editors/gvim-6.3.068  -acl -bash-completion +cscope -debug +gnome +gpm +gtk +gtk2 +motif +ncurses +nls +perl +python +ruby (-selinux) 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

Why am I still getting gvim-6.3 and not 7.0?

[Sadako]

Try changing it to

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=app-editors/vim-core-7.*
=app-editors/vim-7.*
=app-editors/gvim-7.* 

[pjp]

Add these to /etc/portage/package.keywords too. After that, they show as emergeable on my box (replace ~x86 with your arch as necessary).

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=app-editors/vim-core-7* ~x86
=app-editors/vim-7* ~x86
=app-editors/gvim-7* ~x86

[ThomasJ02]

Thanks, that did it!

[ciaranm]

Try changing it to

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=app-editors/vim-core-7.*
=app-editors/vim-7.*
=app-editors/gvim-7.* 

No no no no no.

[Sadako]

Try changing it to

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=app-editors/vim-core-7.*
=app-editors/vim-7.*
=app-editors/gvim-7.* 

No no no no no.

No? Bugger.
I really shouldn't bother trying to help.
I just end up saying something stupid and embarrassing myself yet again.



I just remember coming up against the same problem before, and changing one to the other fixed it. Guess I changed it to what ThomasJ02 already had.