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Jason Wever wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:28:13 -0700
> gentuxx <gentuxx@...> wrote:
>
>> So, if I wanted to *test it* and/or live with restarting it once a
>> day, how do I unmask it so emerge will install it?
>> (/etc/portage/package.keywords didn't work)
>
> NOTE: The advice given below is not recommended for working around
> packages that are masked or lack sparc keywords.  Specifically, if an
> ebuild has a -sparc keyword, it is known the software is broken.
>
Understood and accepted.  ;-)
> Chances are you didn't do it quite right.  You'll probably want an
> entry like "net-analyzer/snort ~x86" in package.keywords.  If I add
> this to /etc/portage/package.keywords on a sparc system with stable
> keywords, I can now emerge snort-2.4.5.
>
> Cheers,
Putting "~x86" in package.keywords still gets me this:

jupiter portage # emerge -pv snort

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "snort" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- - net-analyzer/snort-2.6.0 (masked by: package.mask)
# Marcelo Goes <vanquirius@g.o> (07 Jul 2006)
# Masked for testing
# Please see bug 136250 for more details

- - net-analyzer/snort-2.4.5 (masked by: -sparc keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

But putting '-sparc' seems to work:

jupiter portage # emerge -av snort

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-libs/libpcap-0.9.4  USE="-ipv6" 415 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libpcre-6.3  USE="-doc" 552 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/snort-2.4.5  USE="ssl -flexresp -inline
- -mysql -odbc -postgres -prelude -sguil -snortsam" 3,540 kB

Total size of downloads: 4,508 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]


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