Because that is already covered by: */*::qt
in package.mask. This masks everything from the qt overlay, including versions of Qt higher or equal to 5.7.
I only masked >=5.7, then the other packages from the qt overlay would not be masked. What I need is mask ALL packages in the qt overlay EXCEPT dev-qt/*-5.6.*.
On 30/03/16 00:14, Ian Bloss wrote:
Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com <mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". > > It doesn't work: > > package.mask: */*::qt > package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt > > With this, 5.6 versions are still masked. > > How do I do this? Well, I brute-forced it. I've use this mask: */*::qt and this unmask: <dev-qt/designer-5.7 <dev-qt/linguist-tools-5.7 <dev-qt/qdbus-5.7 <dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.7 <dev-qt/qtcore-5.7 <dev-qt/qtdbus-5.7 <dev-qt/qtdeclarative-5.7 <dev-qt/qtgraphicaleffects-5.7 <dev-qt/qtgui-5.7 <dev-qt/qtimageformats-5.7 <dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.7 <dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.7 <dev-qt/qtopengl-5.7 <dev-qt/qtpaths-5.7 <dev-qt/qtprintsupport-5.7 <dev-qt/qtquickcontrols-5.7 <dev-qt/qtscript-5.7 <dev-qt/qtsql-5.7 <dev-qt/qtsvg-5.7 <dev-qt/qttest-5.7 <dev-qt/qtwidgets-5.7 <dev-qt/qtx11extras-5.7 <dev-qt/qtxml-5.7 <dev-qt/qtxmlpatterns-5.7 It works, but I would have expected that computers are good with wildcards :-/ The above should be equivalent to this: <dev-qt/*-5.7* but portage refuses to recognize it. Ah, well.
