Walter Dnes wrote: > 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. >
There's a couple threads on -dev about masking python 2 stuff. It caused quite a bit of controversy. I don't know if this is related or not but could it be that some of the packages depend on python 2 OR you have something set to python 2 only for some reason? If you can't find any other reason for this, you may want to check into those threads to see if it is related. Dale :-) :-)
