I just ran a system update and got the following warning... !!! The following installed packages are masked: - sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> (2017-10-18) # sys-devel/automake versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 # have known security vulnerabilities, are broken with # recent Perl (>=5.26.0), and are not used by anything in # the Gentoo repository. Please uninstall.
1) It says that 1.4-to-1.8 have problems. So why is 1.9.6-r5 masked? 2) It says that no apps use 1.9.6-r5, but... [d531][root][~] equery d =sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5 * These packages depend on sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r5: mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64-r3 (sys-devel/automake) net-misc/openrdate-1.2 (=sys-devel/automake-1.9*) ssmtp would probably be OK with a higher version, but openrdate specifically wants automake-1.9*. The next version upwards in /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake is 1.10.3-r3 I currently have 1.9.6-r5 and 1.15.1-r2 and 1.16.1-r1 installed. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
