On Monday 02 November 2009 04:17:43 Harry Putnam wrote:
> When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually
> found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular
> masked package is not listed there... where else would it be.
>
> I see libtool is masked above version 1.5.26-r1, but is not in
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask...
try syncing again, maybe you're just a little out of date there.
failing that, look in /etc/portage/package.mask*
> grep libtool /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
> <nothing>
>
> Where else to look?
>
> Even this: search
> find /usr/portage/ -name 'package.mask' -exec grep libtool {} \;
> # Some weird libtool breakage on Solaris and Darwin
Well at least we know it's not hard-masked inside your profile itself :-)
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