unable to unmask vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3

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[Lx]-=Mystify=- · Post by **[Lx]-=Mystify=-** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:18 am

hi...

i want to upgrade to vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 cause of the security hole in the prior versions.

but vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 is masked, so i pasted =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 ~x86 into /etc/portage/package.keywords.

but nothing happens. a emerge -tvuND world don't show me the new kernel, and even a emerge -s shows the old (2.6.15.1) version.

what the hell is wrong? i use gentoo for over 2 years, and even a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s vanilla-sources doesn't work...

i'm heavily confused...

Marctraider · Post by **Marctraider** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:01 am

What happens when you do:

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emerge =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3

[Lx]-=Mystify=- · Post by **[Lx]-=Mystify=-** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:37 am

doesn't work...

i tried some other stuff, but without luck

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wh-server-int01 ~ # emerge =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 
Calculating dependencies   
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

wh-server-int01 ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 
Calculating dependencies   
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

wh-server-int01 ~ # export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"                                             
wh-server-int01 ~ # emerge =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 
Calculating dependencies   
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

wh-server-int01 ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords 
###############################################
# date of change: 23.01.2006 01:30            #
# new version of vpnc                         #
###############################################
net-misc/vpnc                                   ~x86


=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3 ~x86

app-admin/eselect-mysql                         ~x86
app-admin/eselect                               ~x86
dev-db/mysql                                    ~x86

Marctraider · Post by **Marctraider** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:42 am

In your 2 years of using gentoo, you learned the difference between package.keywords and package.mask/unmask?

If it says its masked by package.mask you must unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask

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echo ">=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources.2.6.15.3" /etc/portage/package.unmask

or something.
Dont worry, i had problems with this too when i first started

[Lx]-=Mystify=- · Post by **[Lx]-=Mystify=-** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:37 am

yeah, that the really strange thing i don't understand...

packages that are masked via package.mask have the 'M~' tag when i search for them on packages.gentoo.org.

and packages that are masked by ~<ARCH> have the '~' (for testing) tag when search on packages.gentoo.org.

if you do a search for vanilla-sources you'll see that version 2.6.15.3 is tagged with '~'.

correct me if i'm wrong.

Marctraider · Post by **Marctraider** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:48 am

Yeah i noticed before that its tagged with ~M...

O well, does it work for you now?

[Lx]-=Mystify=- · Post by **[Lx]-=Mystify=-** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:36 am

and i did a 'emerge sync' after it had changed to '~'.

and according to 'man emerge' '/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask' includes the 'M~' masked packages, but it does not include vanilla-sources.

so from where else could portage get this information?