On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim > > > users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import > > > settings. > > > > OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim > > being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no > > longer valid/expected? > > No, there's nothing wrong with your system. Portage will allow you to > have an installed package that isn't in the tree anymore as a copy of > the ebuild is in /var somewhere. Maybe if you set verbose logging it > will alert you but this isn't an error. If it were, people would be > forced to remove stuff everytime some dev masked a package on a whim. > > Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you > that it can't do the update. > > In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. Thanks Alan, I can remember though that XMMS (and other packages) were flagged up as hard masked/not in the tree by Portage. Am I right? -- Regards, Mick
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