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| author |   William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2012-01-05 22:31:29 +0000 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2012-01-05 22:31:29 +0000 |
| commit | e615424f69ad79cdde4e74c82c74286761449f11 (patch) | |
| tree | 209828844d32bb55b0e997cd15876e67583e811b /profiles/default | |
| parent | version bump (bug #396451) (diff) | |
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package.use.mask zlib for sys-apps/pciutils and sys-apps/usbutils for bug #360849.
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| -rw-r--r-- | profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask b/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask index 77e3fd6c6704..5368a5d1d685 100644 --- a/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask +++ b/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask @@ -1,10 +1,27 @@ -# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask,v 1.22 2011/08/07 21:09:31 hwoarang Exp $ +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask,v 1.23 2012/01/05 22:31:29 williamh Exp $ sys-devel/gcc hardened sys-libs/glibc hardened +# William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> (05 Jan 2012) +# Udev does not support reading compressed hardware databases. +# Upstream was approached about adding this functionality to udev; +# however, the idea was rejected (see comment #28 of the bug below). +# Since pciutils only stores the compressed database on disk when the +# zlib use flag is on and usbutils is moving toward doing the same, +# the udev maintainers (myself and Robin Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>) +# agree that the best way forward for this bug is to package.use.mask +# zlib for pciutils and usbutils until the upstreams agree or udev +# upstream moves away from using the databases these packages provide. +# This way, zlib support can be left on for everything else and neither +# udev nor base-system needs to carry custom patches. +# Please do not unmask without speaking to myself and Robin. +# See bug #360849 for the details. +sys-apps/pciutils zlib +sys-apps/usbutils zlib + # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2011) # doc flag is not ready yet for media-video/mplayer2. # See bug #361075 |