tweak gawk comments

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a276e07505be..3e2586c9889f 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ gawk#####################################################################
 #  lolo asked me to do, and masking it totally did not just break it
 #  from detecting (and effectively disabling) devfs, but also broke
 #  depscan.sh, rc-envupdate.sh, etc, which was IMHO MUCH worse.
-#  --Azarah
+#  --Azarah (26 Mar 2003)
 #
 #  Ok, this problem is getting uglier by the second.  
 #  The way it looks to me is that FIRST gawk changes it's API so that
@@ -42,7 +42,15 @@ gawk#####################################################################
 #  gawk call that the lovely GNU folks also changed the function of
 #  between versions.  And so Azarah and I will have to spend some time
 #  rebooting ourselves to make sure this is OK.  Sorry about all that
-#  folks.  --LostLogic
+#  folks.  --LostLogic (26 Mar 2003)
+#
+#  Right, so I added the filefuncs module to gawk-3.1.1-r2, meaning
+#  I can remove it from baselayout if /lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so is
+#  a valid symlink.  And until the GNU guys can get back to me about
+#  this new bug of not taking a input file as parameter to gawk, we
+#  can safely use 3.1.1.  Also, those who did upgrade to 3.1.2, can
+#  safely downgrade, as filefuncs.so will not be nuked.
+#  --Azarah (26 Mar 2003)
 >=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.2
 
 # <sethbc@gentoo.org> (23 Mar 2003)