On Tue, Jul 08 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:02:56 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> For some reason my mostly-stable-slightly-testing system
>> is trying to merge *UNstable* dev-lang/perl.
>
>> Specifically it wants me to unmask
>> =dev-lang/perl-5.20.0-r1
>
> That's not testing, it's masked.
Right; that is what I thought I said. Oh now I see I wrote *UNstable*.
I thought that was a synonym for masked. Will purge that term from my
gentoo vocabulary.
> % eix -e perl
> [I] dev-lang/perl
> Available versions: 5.16.3(0/5.16) (~)5.18.2-r1(0/5.18){tbz2}
> [M](~)5.20.0-r1(0/5.20) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
>
>> [nomerge ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-2.132.510
>> [ebuild U ~] virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.230.400-r1 [0.230.400] 0 kB
>> [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.400.0-r1 [3.400.0] 0 kB
>> [ebuild r U #] dev-lang/perl-5.20.0-r1:0/5.20 [5.16.3:0/5.16]
>
> It would appear that CPAN-Meta is the culprit, see what is pulling
> that in.
That was listed in the voluminous emerge output. Here is the relevant
portion. It starts with xdg-utils (required by lots) and then a
bunch of perl.
The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Command-1.180.0-r1
# required by perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.820.0
# required by virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.820.0
# required by perl-core/CPAN-Meta-2.132.510
# required by virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.132.510
# required by perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.700
# required by virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.400.700
# required by dev-perl/File-MimeInfo-0.170.0
# required by x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.0_rc2[perl]
# required by www-client/chromium-35.0.1916.153
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
>> # Masked for testing, will defenitely cause major breakage
>> # Single modules with 5.20 versions added here too -dilfridge
>> =dev-lang/perl-5.20.0-r1
>
> See, masked, not keyworded, and apparently with good reason.
Right. Sorry for the masked / *UNstable* confusion.
I was surprised eix doesn't even show this version, but that is minor.
allan
