Can not mask mono-4

[kayvax]

Hi,
for some time I have problems with mono-4 from dotnet overlay. I can not mask it in any way and it breaks packages as mono-4 has removed lower targets.

I have tried asking for help at Funtoo forums and #funtoo @freenode but maintainers could not find way to mask it.

Whole topic:
http://forums.funtoo.org/topic/491-mask-problems/

Should you need more info I will try to provide it.
best regards,
kayvax

[kernelOfTruth]

When masking a higher version always go with regexp or wildcards:

Give the following a try:

=dev-lang/mono-4*

>=dev-lang/mono-4*

alternatively you could add the overlay:

=dev-lang/mono-4*::dotnet

>=dev-lang/mono-4*::dotnet

not sure if that works though.

If you only need newer versions of mono instead of all the other dotnet libraries, consider copying those over to your local overlay (e.g. /usr/local/portage) and keep them there, then removing the dotnet-overlay

Are you perhaps overriding things in /etc/portage/package.unmask (file or folder) and /etc/portage/package.keywords (file or folder) ?

[kayvax]

All you advised was tried earlier and did not work. Such masks are overruled by:
/var/lib/layman/dotnet/profiles/package.unmask (or wherever one has layman configured)

cat package.unmask
dev-lang/mono
virtual/monodoc

dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp
dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp

This successfully permits any mask of this packages from dotnet overlay and I think it is outright wrong. If not for clue from funtoo forum I would never guessed that such thing could happen.

Could you please take a look on dotnet/profile/package.unmask and just check whether it needs to be in such way?

best regards,
kayvax

edit:
I have just looked in more and there is another problem with this unmask. There was commit to mask mono-4.0* with dotnet/profiles/package.mask with reason just stated with my first post. But this mask does not work also as package.unmask clearly has priority over package.mask. Thus this fix is broken.
Link 0728a42

[cnd]

Thank you for report, resolved in previous commit, I should also check for other unmasked packages. I'm using 9999 and it works fine and I had not tested the mask.

Check if it will install last 3.x mono from this overlay, 4.0.x is currently masked here https://github.com/gentoo/dotnet/blob/master/profiles/package.mask#L3

[cnd]

@kayvax this repository is mirror, I will push it to layman some later. for now you can just pull from it

[kayvax]

thank you.