Finding the causes of [masked]

cyberconte · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 17

My question is specific, but probably has a general answer.

I want to install mailman, however when i try to install it, it tells me that its masked.

My question is, how do i figure out *why* packages are masked?

Thanks

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

cyberconte · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 17

Hm. I looked there, but i didn't see mailman. Is there something else that would mask it?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20588

Within ebuilds is the variable KEYWORDS. In mailman, this is set to KEYWORDS="~x86 ~sparc ". This package is masked using the ~ symbol. You can remove it in the ebuild to emerge, but it will return after an rsync.
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echeslack · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 10:23 pm Post subject:

This brings up a good point however. I feel like I have been seeing this question more and more since the stable/unstable was implemented. Maybe when portage tells you that the ebuilds are masked it could give you a clue as to why? Maybe it should give you a list of packages that it needs that are masked and also tell you where they are masked (in the ebuild with KEYWORDS or in package.mask).

-ewen