Curtis Farnham

I ran my typical system update this morning, an emerge --sync followed by emerge -DuvaN world. Upon entering the second command, it wanted to downgrade Portage from 2.2_rc20 to the 2.1.x line.

Further investigation showed that all sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc* ebuilds have been hard masked!  Lately I’ve been syncing my machine every day or two, so this is a very recent thing.

Remembering that I needed the 2.2 line in order to use KDE package sets, I decided I’d rather continue using that, if possible, than to let Portage be downgraded and to suffer whatever consequences I would suffer with my system no longer supporting package sets.

To unmask Portage, I entered the following into /etc/portage/package.keywords/portage-2.2:

=sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc25

All is well now.

curtisdf Gentoo Linux KDE 4, Portage

Lately I’ve been seeing a high number of users registering for this website.  However, many of them have been with very suspicious usernames and email addresses (many of them ending in “@mail.ru”) which make me think they were added by Spam bots.  What’s more strange is that no comments have been posted by any of these accounts.  Maybe that’s a good thing…

I decided to delete ALL accounts and to apply the WP-reCaptcha plugin, to make it much more difficult for Spam bots even to register an account at this website.

If you are a real human and your account got deleted with all of the Spam accounts, I am deeply sorry.  Please feel free to re-register.  (And please leave a comment or two, so I know you’re real!)

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