Am Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2019, 01:37:17 CET schrieb Walter Dnes: > I just ran a system update and got the following warning... > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> (2017-10-18) > # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 > # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with > # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in > # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall. > > 1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked? > > 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but... > > [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5 > * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5: > mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake) > net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*)
openrdate does not appear to be in the portage tree (it was removed on
2019-09-17, specifically because of its dependency on automake 1.9). I
suppose you put it in a local overlay or something?
> ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate
> specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in
> /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3
>
> I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed.
"git log" to the rescue: commit 85fb9e060cbba2053036988833c2affc9bb6d454
("profiles/package.mask: extend automake mask to :1.9") extended the mask
without updating the comment, and refers to https://bugs.gentoo.org/489450,
which I haven't bothered checking.
HTH
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