On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:42:39 +0100, Kraus Philipp wrote:

> I would like to emerge a new automake version. At this time emerge  
> shows the 1.11.1 version but I need the version 1.4. I have found a  
> security information that the package is masked because a vulnerabily.  
> I need only the 1.4 version to compiling a source, after compiling I  
> can remove the 1.4 version. I have emerged the sys-devel/automake- 
> wrapper and try to emerge automake 1.4 with emerge -av = automake-1.4  
> or add them to my portage,mask. How can I install the 1.4 version  
> temporary?

It's not masked here, not even keyworded. But if you have added it to
package.mask yourself, it will be masked for you. Add packages to
package.unmass to override a global mask, but that isn't needed here. I
got no warnings when running

 emerge automake:1.4 -p


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