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From: Rigo Ketelings <rigo@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking question - READ THIS !
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:18:50
Message-Id: 200210131653.41040.rigo@home.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] masking question (flex-2.5.4a-r5 / xfree-4.2.1) by Rolf Offermanns
1 <Quote who=bcowman@g.o>
2
3 I did a work around for the sandboxing on ethereal 0.9.7, its now masked for
4 testing using new arch testing keywords. I'm gonna close this out could u
5 please resubmit me the correct kismet ebuild :). BTW here are the
6 instructions for unmasking arch testing keywords:
7
8 Another important snippet. If you want to unmask all ~x86 KEYWORDSed
9 ebuilds, add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
10
11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
12
13 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is incremental like USE so it *will* keep the existing
14 "x86" that is defined in your profile. This can also be done using the
15 environment for temporary testing purposes:
16
17 # export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (or "~ppc" or "~sparc", etc.)
18
19
20 </Quote>
21
22 Rigo
23
24
25 On Sunday 13 October 2002 15:11, Rolf Offermanns wrote:
26 > Can anyone help me with the following?
27 >
28 > When I do an emerge -s flex, I get
29 > * sys-devel/flex
30 > Latest version available: 2.5.4a-r4
31 > Latest version installed: 2.5.4a-r4
32 > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
33 > Description: GNU lexical analyser generator
34 >
35 > There is an -r5 ebuild in the portage dir. and this version is not masked,
36 > so why isn't it listed in the search?
37 >
38 > Almost the same with the xfree-4.2.1.ebuild. This one is masked but if I
39 > unmask it, I still get the 4.2.0-r12 version listed.
40 >
41 > When i try to give the 4.2.1 ebuild on the emerge command line I get the
42 > following:
43 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
44 >
45 > Calculating dependencies |
46 >
47 > emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5" (from
48 > ebuild / x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 merge) have been masked.
49 >
50 > I am confused. What does that mean and where is it masked?
51 >
52 > -Rolf

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Re: [gentoo-dev] masking question - READ THIS ! Evan Read <eread@×××××××××.org>