Re: profile masking

>>>>> 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 <[email protected]> (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).

You could override the mask in your overlay's profile/package.mask
instead, using an entry with the "-" operator.

Ulrich

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