Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild help
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:27:40
Message-Id: 200309232227.39709.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ebuild help by Brett
1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:17, Brett wrote:
2 > Greetings,
3 > I have a few Linux programs which I would like to use, but which are not
4 > in portage. I have attempted to make some ebuild scripts (via the ebuild
5 > HOWTO) for these programs, but I can't get them to work.
6 >
7 > The error I receive is:
8 > {
9 > # emerge /usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/app-office/bhpos-base
10 > Calculating dependencies
11 > emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy
12 > "/usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/app-office/bhpos-base".
13 >
14 > !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
15 >
16 > }//end error
17 >
18 > I have tried everything I can think of, including commenting out all the
19 > required dependencies.
20
21 you're doing it wrong ...
22 the PORTDIR_OVERLAY is just like the official portdir. that said, you should
23 have the ebuild here:
24 /usr/local/portage/app-office/bhpos-base/bhpos-base-1.20.ebuild
25 (note the 1.20 is a version i just made up :P)
26 then you can just do `emerge bhpos-base`
27 -mike