Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Colin Kingsley <ckingsley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] error on emerge gentoo-dev-sources
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:38:26
Message-Id: 13cc2f7804111613384a24091b@mail.gmail.com
1 On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:10:53 -0600, Patrick Tisdale
2 <ptisdale@×××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:32 -0500, Colin Kingsley wrote:
4 > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:29:24 -0500, Tisdale, Patrick
5 > > <ptisdale@×××××××××.com> wrote:
6 > > > when i get to "emerge gentoo-dev-sources" i get an error saying all
7 > > > packages are masked.
8 > >
9 > > At the time that liveCD was released, gentoo-dev-sources were not for
10 > > the ppc. We had our own kernel, ppc-dev-sources, which had the benh
11 > > patchset. Since then, benh has become a mainline kernel dev, and
12 > > gentoo-dev-sources is now the prefered kernel for ppc. If your network
13 > > connection was working you could emerge sync, which would give you the
14 > > new, ppc friendly, gentoo-dev-sources ebuilds.
15 > >
16 > > Unfortunately, I dont know how to fix your pcmcia problem. Just
17 > > thought I'd explain the strange error. Good luck
18 > >
19 > > Colin
20 > --
21 >
22 > ah...that makes sense. i'm downloading 2004.3 universal right now. if
23 > pcmcia would work, i would be smoking!
24 >
25 > i'm downloading the packages cd as well, so i should be able to emerge
26 > pcmcia_cs at some point, right?
27 >
28 > thanks,
29 > Patrick Tisdale <ptisdale@×××××××××.com>
30
31 Yea, that sounds like it should work.
32
33 Colin
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