On 8/14/20 8:42 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 17:31 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> >>> When pkgs are masked in the profile, it affects all variants of that >>> pkgs, even the ones that are in other overlays. >>> Example: >>> !!! The following installed packages are masked: >>> - sys-auth/sssd-9999::transmode (masked by: package.mask) >>> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: >>> # Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> (2020-08-13) >>> # Masked for testing >> >>> My sssd-9999 is now masked. >> >>> Could the profile syntax be extended to include syntax allowed in >>> /etc/portage ? Then one could use the ::gentoo syntax (or so I hope) >> >> The :: syntax is Portage specific and doesn't exist in EAPI 7. >> So there's no chance to get it into the profile dir anytime soon >> (because that would imply :: to be added to a future EAPI and the >> top-level profile dir to be bumped to that EAPI). > > Is profile part of EAPI? masks are not defined/used in ebuilds directly. > >> >> You could override the mask in your overlay's profile/package.mask >> instead, using an entry with the "-" operator. > > Yes, I know I can add that in profile/package.mask but I am looking for the > bigger > picture here. This has to stop somehow, there need to be something that limits > the mask scope to the repo/overlay it is defined.
The scope is already limited, but this overlay inherits the mask because it has the gentoo repo as its master (either implicitly or via a masters setting in metadata/layout.conf). I suppose we could add an option to prevent this inheritance. > I think a good start would be to consider /etc/portage the top profile and > other > subprofiles should be able to use the same features as /etc/portage. > > Portage could start supporting that now, but there would be a while until > one can use them in Gentoo profile. We've got this bug open for the ::repo atom support: https://bugs.gentoo.org/651208 -- Thanks, Zac
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