On 2018.03.23 09:48, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Geaaru wrote: > > > for both portage and your fork I think that could be interesting add > > an extension to PMS for define inside profiles or targets masking of > > packages of a particular repslository. Currently PMS doesn't permit > > this but have this feature could be help users to define our > > profiles under overlays. > > > Something like this: > > > sys-devel/gcc::gentoo > > Conceptually that makes no sense. sys-devel/gcc is the name of an > upstream package, so what does it even mean to mask it in one > repository but not in another? If it's the same package, then it > should behave in the same way, regardless of the repository its ebuild > it hosted in (or the package being installed, in which case it is no > longer in an ebuild repository). > > If it is a different package however, then it should have a different > name. > > Ulrich >
Ulrich, That has just irritated me. The use case is sdlmame. !!! The following installed packages are masked: - games-emulation/sdlmame-0.195::Pi_aarch64 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> (18 Mar 2018) # Fails to build (#634662), version bump long time pending (#596162). # Removal in a month. games-emulation/sdlmame is masked. I have a higher version in my overlay than the one in the tree and it gets masked too. Its not a problem to me as I know how to manage it. Its just untidy. With apologies to Pacho for citing his name in the worked example. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods
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