On Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:16:04 GMT Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Am December 6, 2020 10:08:45 PM UTC schrieb [email protected]: > >On 12/06/2020 03:00 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> Am December 6, 2020 9:23:07 PM UTC schrieb [email protected]: > >>> I'm looking at the output of "equery y asterisk" > >>> and it shows asterisk-11.25.3-r1 is masked > >>> and https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/asterisk show as > >>> stable (amd64) > >>> > >>> Why is it masked on my system? > >> > >> It is masked on every system! As the mask says users should upgrade > > > >to newer versions! > > > >> I guess https://packages.gentoo.org does not consider packages masked > > > >by profiles. You can give your feedback about it here: > >https://packages.gentoo.org/about/feedback > > > >Upgrade is not a problem, re-writing / debugging the extconfig.conf > >(dial plan) is; it takes time. > > Which comes with every software update, you always have to adapt. > This however was not your question!
In cases like this it's a good idea to sync portage to fetch the latest tree
status and then check the state of all available and masked versions of a
package; e.g.:
$ eshowkw net-misc/asterisk
Keywords for net-misc/asterisk:
| | u |
| a a p s a r | n |
| m r h p p s l i i m m | e u s | r
| d a m p p c a x 3 p a s 6 i | a s l | e
| 6 r 6 p p 6 r 8 9 h 6 c 8 p | p e o | p
| 4 m 4 a c 4 c 6 0 a 4 v k s | i d t | o
--------------+-----------------------------+-------+-------
[M]11.25.3-r1 | + o o o o o o + o o o o o o | 6 # 0 | gentoo
13.34.0 | + ~ ~ o ~ ~ o + o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo
13.35.0 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo
13.36.0 | + ~ ~ o ~ ~ o + o o o o o o | 7 o | gentoo
13.37.0 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo
16.12.0-r1 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo
16.13.0 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 # | gentoo
16.14.0 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 o | gentoo
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