On 8 December 2011 11:17, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded gcc and after switching to the new version > I want to update system too. But it wants to emerge > baselayout-2 as dependency of system: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/baselayout" have > !!! been masked. One of the following masked packages is required > !!! to complete your request: > - sys-apps/baselayout-2.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, > ~amd64 keyword) > /etc/portage/package.mask: > - sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > (dependency required by "@system" [argument]) > > I do not want to upgrade to baselayout-2, but I want to > re-emerge system. So how can I do it now, when all 1.x > versions have been removed from portage?
I think that the standard answer is "you can't". I mean, you could fetch an old copy of the ebuild from cvs, and add it to a local overlay, but you'd be completely unsupported (unsupportable?). A better question would be - Why do you want to?
