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From: Evan Read <eread@×××××××××.org>
To: Rigo Ketelings <rigo@××××.nl>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking question - READ THIS !
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:06:00
Message-Id: 1034546558.20952.0.camel@modulo
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking question - READ THIS ! by Rigo Ketelings
1 Can you explain this functionality?
2
3 What does the "~" mean in this instance?
4
5 THanks
6
7 On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:53, Rigo Ketelings wrote:
8 > <Quote who=bcowman@g.o>
9 >
10 > I did a work around for the sandboxing on ethereal 0.9.7, its now masked for
11 > testing using new arch testing keywords. I'm gonna close this out could u
12 > please resubmit me the correct kismet ebuild :). BTW here are the
13 > instructions for unmasking arch testing keywords:
14 >
15 > Another important snippet. If you want to unmask all ~x86 KEYWORDSed
16 > ebuilds, add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
17 >
18 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
19 >
20 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is incremental like USE so it *will* keep the existing
21 > "x86" that is defined in your profile. This can also be done using the
22 > environment for temporary testing purposes:
23 >
24 > # export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (or "~ppc" or "~sparc", etc.)
25 >
26 >
27 > </Quote>
28 >
29 > Rigo
30 >
31 >
32 > On Sunday 13 October 2002 15:11, Rolf Offermanns wrote:
33 > > Can anyone help me with the following?
34 > >
35 > > When I do an emerge -s flex, I get
36 > > * sys-devel/flex
37 > > Latest version available: 2.5.4a-r4
38 > > Latest version installed: 2.5.4a-r4
39 > > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
40 > > Description: GNU lexical analyser generator
41 > >
42 > > There is an -r5 ebuild in the portage dir. and this version is not masked,
43 > > so why isn't it listed in the search?
44 > >
45 > > Almost the same with the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild. This one is masked but if I
46 > > unmask it, I still get the 4.2.0-r12 version listed.
47 > >
48 > > When i try to give the 4.2.1 ebuild on the emerge command line I get the
49 > > following:
50 > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
51 > >
52 > > Calculating dependencies |
53 > >
54 > > emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5" (from
55 > > ebuild / x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 merge) have been masked.
56 > >
57 > > I am confused. What does that mean and where is it masked?
58 > >
59 > > -Rolf
60 >
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65 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] masking question - READ THIS ! Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>