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> If I run any package manager operations between the mask date and one month after the mask date, I’ll get this comment telling me the package is masked. After
by NotYourLawyer 3y ago
> If I run any package manager operations between the mask date and one month after the mask date, I’ll get this comment telling me the package is masked. After a month though, the package will get removed from tree along with the package mask (no need to mask a package which isn’t there anymore). So I won’t get the helpful message if I happen to go more than a month between system updates. Which I think is a fairly generous window.
A month is generous? I mean maybe for my desktop machine. Certainly not for some headless file server.
- wtallis 3y agoIf you're going more than a month without updating a server, then you should allow for the possibililty of a bit of downtime (or delay to read the docs) when you do get around to updating it. And since it wasn't clear in the article: removing a package from the portage repo doesn't cause the package to be automatically uninstalled from your system, and it doesn't cause the package to be ignored during dependency resolution.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoMore than a month without an interactive login, sure.