On Friday, February 13, 2009 09:15:18 Guillaume Castagnino wrote:
> In fact, no: glibc-2.9 was allready keyworded on hardened ~x86 in the
> portage tree, and not masked until 2009-02-11.
> So ~x86 hardened was naturally upgraded to glibc 2.9 without any
> intervention.
>

And naturally if you're running ~ARCH you should know how to 
manipulate /etc/portage.

> I have no problem to package.unmask it, it's just to know what is the
> reason for this mask :)

Because sys-libs/glibc-2.8 is about to go stable and stable hardened is not 
ready for it.

> But keep in mind that for ~x86 hardened, this mask has a dependency
> problem, since ~x86 iproute2 depends on glibc that is now masked on
> ~x86 hardened (and was not before 2009-02-11)

So put sys-libs/glibc into /etc/portage/package.unmask.

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